00:00A Tunisian court started hearing on Thursday the final appeal of scores of opposition figures
00:06accused of plotting against the state.
00:09A crowd gathered outside the courthouse to voice support for the defendants.
00:19Today is the trial of Tunisia's future.
00:22It's not the trial of my son or my daughter.
00:25It's a trial of Tunisia.
00:26Today I'm proud of them because they stood up against the coup d'etat carried out by Kay Seyed
00:31and his entourage against Tunisia.
00:34What we're living through is indeed a conspiracy, but not against those in power.
00:38It's against Tunisia.
00:43Last year, 34 people, many of them critics of President Kay Seyed,
00:48were given up to 45 years in prison in an appeal trial,
00:52a move denounced by rights groups and lawyers of the defendants.
00:58This case began in a strange way on the basis of political directives and instructions from the Minister of Justice.
01:03It will certainly end on political directives as well.
01:06We expect nothing from this just-in system.
01:09We know that the judiciary is not independent.
01:11The only decision we're waiting for is the ruling on the appeal.
01:16Seyed was elected as president back in 2019.
01:19But two years later, in 2021, he staged a sweeping power grab.
01:24And rights groups have since criticised a significant drawback on freedoms.
01:28They have for hundreds of thousands.
01:29We have this irgendwie...
01:31Let's continue the rights groups.
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