{"id":42203,"date":"2025-12-31T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=42203"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:43:23","slug":"tunisian-court-upholds-two-year-prison-sentence-for-abir-moussi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=42203","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Court Upholds Two-Year Prison Sentence for Abir Moussi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tunis, Tunisia<\/strong> \u2013 A Tunisian appeals court confirmed a two-year prison sentence for Abir Moussi, the head of the Free Destourian Party (PDL), on Tuesday evening. The decision upholds an earlier ruling stemming from a lawsuit filed against her by the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE).<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, the criminal division of the Tunis Court of Appeal ratified the initial verdict. Moussi retains the right to appeal the decision under established legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The case originates from June of last year, when a primary court initially sentenced Moussi to two years in prison. The ISIE had filed a complaint accusing her of disseminating misleading information regarding the electoral process and exhibiting bias against her party.<\/p>\n<p>Moussi has been in custody since October 3, 2023, facing separate charges including &#8220;spreading false news likely to harm public security.&#8221; Her arrest occurred near the presidential palace as she attempted to file an appeal against decisions made by Tunisian President Kais Saied, according to statements from her party.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, on December 12th, a primary court issued an additional 12-year prison sentence against Moussi on charges of attempting to &#8220;change the structure of the state,&#8221; as reported by local media outlets. The series of charges and convictions highlights the increasingly fraught political landscape in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch will continue to monitor this developing situation and provide updates as they become available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, Tunisia \u2013 A Tunisian appeals court confirmed a two-year prison sentence for Abir Moussi, the head of the Free Destourian Party (PDL), on Tuesday evening. The decision upholds an earlier ruling stemming from a lawsuit filed against her by the Independent High Authority for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42205,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203\/revisions\/42205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}