{"id":47234,"date":"2026-10-05T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47234"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:37:26","slug":"tunisia-cuts-prison-term-for-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tunisia-cuts-prison-term-for-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia cuts prison term for fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tunisia has reduced the prison sentence for publishing what is classified as fake news under its cybercrime law.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>President Kais Saied has amended the decree, which previously allowed for prison terms of up to five years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The law has been criticised by journalists and activists since it was introduced several years ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Political analyst and Middle East and North Africa researcher Ibrahim Dean say the reduction in the punishment is a positive development.<\/p>\n<p>Political Analyst and Middle East and North Africa Researcher Ibrahim Dean says the consequences of this decree have been dire on Journalists and civil society organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The changes made to the decree include fines instead of previous imprisonment of up to five years.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dean mentions the punishment that offenders are likely to face.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47234","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tunisia reduces the prison sentence for publishing fake news","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47235,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47234\/revisions\/47235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}