Tunisia: Repeal Criminal Defamation Law

Email New criminal defamation charges against a university professor and a blogger for allegedly libeling public officials underscore the need to end the criminalization of defamation in Tunisia. They face up to two years in prison for publicly exposing alleged wrongdoing of the minister of Foreign Affairs and the general rapporteur of the constitution at the National Constituent Assembly. (Tunis) – New criminal defamation charges against a university professor and a blogger for allegedly libeling public officials underscore the need to end the criminalization of defamation in Tunisia.read…

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