Question 14543 — foreign policy

Summary

Ms. Zahia Hamdane draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the judicial harassment targeting the Tunisian lawyer and columnist Sonia Dahmani. Arrested violently on May 11, 2024 at the headquarters of the Bar Association in Tunis, Ms. Dahmani is the subject of uninterrupted procedural harassment. While she had benefited from conditional release on November 27, 2025 after having been sentenced to several times, its situation has just experienced a new critical turning point. On April 13, 2026, the Tunis Court of Appeal sentenced her to 18 months in prison. This sentence, pronounced on the basis of Decree-Law No. 2022-54, follows his media comments denouncing racism and the conditions of migration management in Tunisia. The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) strongly denounced this verdict, seeing it as a a clear desire to “silence divergent voices” and “harassment aimed at intimidating the entire media sector”. Despite her state of physical and psychological health considered fragile, Ms. Dahmani is once again threatened with immediate incarceration, illustrating the ongoing authoritarian drift where the systematic use of Decree 54 serves as a weapon of repression against freedom of expression. This case, which has become emblematic international level (Ms. Dahmani having received the human rights prize from the Council of European Bars in November 2025) directly questions Tunisia's partners. While France maintains close cooperation, particularly security cooperation, with Tunis, the MP asks her to specify the diplomatic steps taken to obtain a definitive end to the proceedings against Ms. Dahmani. Elle questions her about the position of the France faced with the multiplication of these convictions on appeal under cover of Decree 54, denounced by the United Nations and on the measures it intends to take so that French bilateral support is strictly conditioned on respect for public freedoms and the right to a fair trial.

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