A Tunisian court has sentenced lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani to an additional two years in prison for remarks about racism against migrants, her lawyer told AFP on Monday. Dahmani, 60, is already serving a separate two-year term after being arrested in May 2024 by masked officers at the Tunis bar association.
Her latest sentence relates to a radio broadcast in which she criticized segregationist practices such as separate cemeteries and buses for Black people. Dahmani faces multiple cases under a 2022 law introduced by President Kais Saied to combat “false information,” which rights groups say is applied too broadly to silence dissent.
Since Saied’s 2021 power grab, dozens of critics, journalists, and activists have been jailed under Decree 54 or on security charges. The crackdown intensified after Saied denounced “hordes” of sub-Saharan migrants as part of a demographic “plot,” fueling an anti-immigrant backlash in Tunisia, a country already grappling with a deep economic crisis.
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