A Tunisian prisoner was sentenced today to six months in prison for refusing to watch the President of the country, Mrs Said Saged on television, his lawyer and a non -governmental organization complained.

While in his cell, while the news on television began, the prisoner “expressed his refusal to see the president’s activities”, according to a statement by the Tunisian Human Rights Annex (LTDH) in the city of Gafa.

One of his detainees denounced him, resulting in a prosecution and sentenced to six months in prison.

His lawyer, Adel Sgier, said that his client, who was angry with the head of the state, spoke abusive and asked to change the channel when Sauged appeared on the screen. The prisoner had put them with the president because he had been deported from Italy, where he lived without papers. According to the lawyer, he believed that Saged “destroyed his life” with his agreements with Italy on the repatriation of irregular immigrants.

The detainee was accused on the basis of Article 67 of the Criminal Code, that is, of infringement of the head of the state, but the court to which he was referred amended the charge to a “insult of morals” in order not to give the case “political dimension” to the case, the lawyer assured.

The man was imprisoned for another case, but he was rejected. His relatives learned that he was convicted of something else when they did not release him.

After President Mrs Sauged assumed all the powers in July 2021, Tunisian and foreign non -governmental organizations speak of limiting the rights and freedoms in the country that has been the cradle of “Arab Spring”. In her announcement, Ltdh talks about “even a policy of expanding to prisoners in their cells.”