{"id":48631,"date":"2023-09-22T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/alerte-tunisie-tawfiq-omrane\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:27:30","slug":"alerte-tunisie-tawfiq-omrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/alerte-tunisie-tawfiq-omrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert Tunisia &#8211; Tawfiq #Omrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>29 September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane is the subject of two complaints and is awaiting a court ruling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 25 September 2023, the cartoonist went to the Tunis 1 Court of First Instance to find out about the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>22 September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The famous Tunisian cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane was arrested because of his cartoon and a photomontage and then provisionally released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/dessinateurs\/omrane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tawfiq Omrane<\/a>, a member of Cartooning for Peace,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2023\/09\/22\/en-tunisie-avec-l-arrestation-du-satiriste-tawfiq-omrane-le-regime-porte-un-nouveau-coup-a-la-liberte-d-expression_6190470_3212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was arrested\u00a0<em>(article in French)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in the late afternoon of 21 September 2023 at his home before being taken to the headquarters of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessnews.com.tn\/tawfiq-omrane-place-en-garde-a-vue-pour-une-caricature,520,132185,3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M\u00e9grine national security district\u00a0<em>(article in French)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0where he was questioned for 3 hours. Placed in detention at the Bouchoucha centre following this interrogation, he was finally released provisionally later that night.\u00a0<strong>He is due to appear before the Tunis 1 Court of First Instance on Monday 25 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/soutiens\/alerte-tunisie-tawfiq-omrane\/\">More info<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 September 2023 &nbsp; Cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane is the subject of two complaints and is awaiting a court ruling. On 25 September 2023, the cartoonist went to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[64,51,57,271,56,429,433,126,228,227,434,378,488,524,525,380,526],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50071,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48631\/revisions\/50071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}