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        "slug": "2025-tunisia-record-journalists-jailed-decree-54",
        "title": "Tunisia's cybercrime decree pushes jailed-journalist count to highest since 1992",
        "occurred_on": "2025-01-16",
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        "issue_of_the_day": "Decree-Law 54, issued by President Kais Saied in 2022 without a sitting parliament, criminalized spreading what authorities deem \"false news\" online, and by January 2025 had become the basis for jailing a record number of Tunisian journalists.",
        "outcome": "sustained",
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        "status": "in_effect",
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        "summary": "The Committee to Protect Journalists found at least four journalists imprisoned under Tunisia's 2022 Decree-Law 54 on cybercrime as of January 2025, including radio hosts Mourad Zghidi and Borhen Bsaies, pushing the country's jailed-journalist count to its highest since 1992 under President Kais Saied.",
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