{"id":1618284,"date":"2024-04-18T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpj.org\/?p=380425"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:23:46","slug":"tunisian-journalist-mohamed-boughaleb-sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/18\/tunisian-journalist-mohamed-boughaleb-sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian journalist Mohamed Boughaleb sentenced to 6 months in prison for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York, April 18, 2024\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohamed Boughaleb after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhurra.com\/tunisia\/2024\/04\/18\/%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-6-%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3\">convicted<\/a> by a Tunis court of defamation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/ar\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9\/20240418-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF\">sentenced<\/a> to six months in prison on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sentencing of journalist Mohamed Boughaleb to six months in prison over social media posts and statements on television and radio is a clear attack against independent journalists and the freedom of the press,\u201d said CPJ Program Director Carlos Mart\u00ednez de la Serna, from New York. \u201cTunisian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Boughaleb and drop all charges against him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police arrested Boughaleb, a reporter with local independent channel Carthage Plus and local independent radio station Cap FM, in the capital, Tunis, on <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2024\/04\/tunisian-authorities-arrest-charge-journalist-mohamed-boughaleb\/\">March 22<\/a>. The arrest followed a complaint filed by an unnamed employee of the Ministry of Religious Affairs over the journalists\u2019 social media posts and statements on television and radio concerning the ministry\u2019s policies and ministry officials\u2019 visits abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CPJ emailed the Tunisian Ministry of Religious Affairs for comment on Boughaleb\u2019s sentence but did not receive a reply.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2024\/04\/tunisian-journalist-mohamed-boughaleb-sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-for-defamation\/\" >Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2024\/04\/18\/tunisian-journalist-mohamed-boughaleb-sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-for-defamation\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, April 18, 2024\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohamed Boughaleb after he was convicted by a Tunis court of defamation and sentenced to six months in prison on Wednesday. \u201cThe sentencing of journalist Mohamed Boughaleb to six months in prison over social media posts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77740,77741,77735,77742,77738,7904,22127,30018,17621,42614,1253,523,43949,77739,43036,62439,1169,42642,27626,27150,63288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618285,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618284\/revisions\/1618285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}