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  "name": "Kais Saied",
  "office": null,
  "role": "President of Tunisia",
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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",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "TN",
      "country_name": "Tunisia",
      "continent": "africa",
      "jurisdiction": "TN",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "insult_and_defamation_laws",
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      "leader_slug": "kais-saied",
      "leader_name": "Kais Saied",
      "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",
      "outcome_on": null,
      "outcome_note": "Decree-Law 54 remained in force and continued to produce new prosecutions, which CPJ said brought jailed-journalist numbers to a record.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 137,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 137th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "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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