{"id":8358,"date":"2026-01-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/violations\/%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a-khalifa-guessmi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:43:45","slug":"%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a-khalifa-guessmi","status":"publish","type":"violations","link":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/violations\/%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a-khalifa-guessmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalifa Guessmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-menu-image dashicons-before dashicons-admin-generic\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-menu-name\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Khalifa Guesmi works as a journalist in the region of Kairourane for Mosaique FM, the Tunisian radio station. He was arrested on March 18, 2022, after the deputy public prosecutor at the Tunis 1 course authorized the journalist\u2019s detention for five days for investigation. This is after Khalifa Guesmi published a news report about the eradication of a terrorist cell in Kairouan, in accordance with Article 34 of the Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering Law of 2015<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On 18 March, Khalifa was summoned for questioning by the National Unit for Combating Terrorism of the National Guard in El Aouina (5th Office), where the journalist provided his statements during an interrogation that lasted nearly nine hours. Accordingly, the deputy public prosecutor authorized the detention of Khalifa Guesmi due to his refusal to reveal his source of information. This is a legal matter, according to Decree No.115 regulating the journalistic profession, which states that \u201c The journalist\u2019s sources in the performance of his duties, and the sources of all persons contributing to the preparation of the media material, are protected and violating the secrecy of the sources directly or indirectly is prohibited, except if it is justified by an urgent needs for reasons of state security, national defense or subject to judicial supervision. Any infringement on the confidentiality of sources in all investigations and acts of research, inspection, and eavesdropping on correspondences or communications that the public authority may undertake against the journalist to reveal his sources or towards all persons with whom he has a special relationship is considered.\u201d This guaranteed the journalist\u2019s right to protect his sources and not disclose them legally<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The journalist Khalifa Guesmi\u2019s statements were taken, and subsequently, the deputy public prosecutor authorized his detention of 5 days for investigation without any charges being brought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7328,"template":"","meta":{"datee":1647633600,"govern":"Beb El Bhar Delegation","violation_location_map":"R672+35 \u062a\u0648\u0646\u0633\u060c \u062a\u0648\u0646\u0633\u200e"},"ecupation":[246],"case_status":[231],"governorate":[232],"violation_type":[240],"class_list":["post-8358","violations","type-violations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ecupation-journalist","case_status-231","governorate-tunis","violation_type-arbitrary-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/violations"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8358\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ecupation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecupation?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"case_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_status?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"governorate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/governorate?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"violation_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violation_type?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}