Following the appearance of magistrate Hamadi Rahmani on October 30, 2025 before the Tunis Court of First Instance to answer charges on the basis of article 24 of decree-law 54/2022 following complaints lodged by the former first president of the Court of Cassation Tayeb Rached, who claimed that publications on social networks denouncing acts of corruption attributed to him and observed by the Higher Council of the Magistracy were false and defamatory, which then initiated disciplinary and criminal proceedings against him. 

The cases were postponed for deliberation despite all the defense's requests for adjournment, and moreover requests to lift the deliberation with an extract from Tayeb Rached's judgment which proves the veracity of the statements and publications attributed to magistrate Hamadi Rahmani, one of the most active magistrates. in the collective we the signatories who demanded that the law be applied in the cases of the first president of the Cour de Cassation at the time he demanded his dismissal to preserve the reputation of the Tunisian judiciary and the Cour de C assation the highest court in Tunisian judicial justice.

It should also be remembered that Hamadi Rahmani is a judge who was arbitrarily dismissed by Presidential Decree 516/2022, and that Kais Said refused to be reinstated despite a stay of execution decision by the First President of the Administrative Court and a provisional order in his favor by the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights ordering the Tunisian State to suspend the application of Decree-Law 35-2022 and Decree 516/2022.

Hamdi Rahmani was also persecuted by the Bar Council under the presidency of Hatem Meziou, who refused to admit him to the Bar out of allegiance to the regime. 

And following Hamadi Rahmani's sentencing on November 02, 2025 to 18 months' imprisonment in his cases, a conviction which gave rise to deep concern on the part of the UN Human Rights Council's independent special rapporteur on the independence of the judiciary, magistrates and lawyers, who called on the Tunisian authorities to respect its constitution, international obligations and domestic laws regarding this and other cases.

The CRLDHT :

• Denounces the trial, which was held without any waiver of immunity being requested or decided by the High Council of the Judiciary, even the provisional one at the time of the prosecution. 
• Strongly condemns the judicial harassment of Mr Hamadi Rahmani and calls for an end to all these unfounded proceedings, both in form and substance 
• Denounces the hypocrisy and contradiction of a jurisdiction that condemns the plaintiff for corruption and prosecutes the whistleblower for disseminating false news and defamation based on a flawed logic where facts and deeds matter little what matters is the position of the accused Kais Said and the violations that his regime perpetuates.
• Calls on the Bar Council to assume its historic responsibility to support and show solidarity with judges who are victims of arbitrariness and despotism