Moroccan attorneys stand in solidarity with their Tunisian colleague and demand the intervention of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights

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The Affiliation of Attorneys’ Our bodies in Morocco denounced the Tunisian authorities’ storming of one of many branches of the Attorneys’ Home in the identical nation, arresting lawyer Sania Dahmani, and taking her to an unknown location, contemplating this as “a precedent that nobody dared to do earlier than.”

The affiliation said in an announcement that “the authorized physique and its establishments in Morocco had been shaken when the hand of the Tunisian safety authority prolonged a deliberate and intensive assault on the authorized establishment, by means of a violent touchdown of safety forces, and their occupation of the lawyer’s home within the regional department of attorneys in Tunisia.”

The attorneys burdened that the arrest of their colleague, the lawyer, “is an unacceptable act and a failed step that impacts the independence of the occupation, its societal standing, and its pioneering function in defending the positive factors of the revolution in Tunisia and constructing the establishments of the state of legislation and human rights,” contemplating it “an try to abort the efforts of attorneys to strengthen the independence of the judiciary in Tunisia and protect its fame.” And raise the siege on its capabilities.”

The identical supply concluded that what occurred was “a political setback, with the Tunisian authorities floundering in a authorized quagmire,” and “a failed assault on the citadel of the reliable authorized and human rights battle that the world praised in the course of the revolution towards tyranny.”

Accordingly, the Affiliation of Moroccan Bar Associations referred to as on the Particular Rapporteur on the independence of the judiciary and the authorized occupation to the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights to open an investigation into the assault towards the Nationwide Group of Attorneys and the Tunisian Regional Department, and to induce the state and authorities in Tunisia to raise the hand of the authorized occupation and to not infringe on the liberty and independence of attorneys.

As well as, the affiliation that signed the assertion burdened the necessity for pressing motion and victory for attorneys in Tunisia, and the discharge of these detained as quickly as potential.

It’s noteworthy that final Saturday, the Tunisian police stormed the Bar Affiliation constructing in implementation of a judicial choice and arrested lawyer Sania Dahmani, identified for her statements criticizing the insurance policies of President Kais Saied, due to an announcement through which she mentioned that Tunisia is a rustic through which life just isn’t nice.

Dozens of attorneys gathered at this time, Monday, in entrance of the courtroom, the place the decide is anticipated to start listening to Al-Dahmani, elevating slogans: “Freedoms, freedoms, not the implementation of directions,” “What a disgrace the attorneys are below siege,” and “Oh Sunnis, don’t worry, freedoms are redeemed with blood.”…

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2024-05-14 06:05:56

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