Placed on Thursday, September 21, 2023, in pre-trial detention, cartoonist Tawfik Omrane was released this morning. In a statement to the media, Tawfik Omrane was apprehended in Mégrine for harming others on social networks after the publication of caricatures criticizing the prime minister. He was apprehended in accordance with the provisions of Article 86 of the Telecommunications Code.
According to this article, anyone who knowingly harms third parties or disrupts their peace and quiet through public telecommunications networks is punishable by incarceration of one to two years and a fine of one hundred to one thousand dinars.
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