TUNIS: A Tunisian journalist who criticised court decisions against his media colleagues and the judges involved has been arrested by authorities for causing “harm to others” and their reputations, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.
Since President Kais Saied staged a sweeping power grab in 2021 -- in what critics have called a coup -- rights groups have denounced a regression in freedoms in the country. Dozens of Saied´s critics are currently behind bars. Zied el-Heni´s arrest came after authorities opened an investigation into comments he made in early April in capital Tunis about journalists who had been “unjustly” convicted by judges he called “criminals”, according to his lawyer Samir Dilou.
