Tunisia softens its โfalse newsโ penalty. What really changed, and why now?
Fines replace jail terms for first-time 'false news' offences under a decree rights groups say is still repressive.
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Fines replace jail terms for first-time 'false news' offences under a decree rights groups say is still repressive.
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday softened a cybercrime decree that was widely criticised by rights groups, by scrapping a five-year prison sentence for the dissemination of "fake news"
According to lawyers in Tunisia, at least 11 people have been arrested after calling for the release of jailed organisers of a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla.
Hundreds of Tunisians have protested in Tunis, demanding the release of four Global Sumud Flotilla activists.