The lawyer and former magistrate Ahmed Souab was summoned this Wednesday, April 23, 2025 on Wednesday, before the investigating judge of the office 12 within the judicial center to fight against terrorism. His hearing is scheduled at 10:30 am, as part of an investigation still underway against him.
The information was confirmed by his lawyer, Me Sami Ben Ghazi, who reaffirmed the will of his client to cooperate fully with justice, while denouncing the unfounded nature of the proceedings against him.
An investigating judge with the judicial center for the fight against terrorism ordered, yesterday, Monday, April 21, 2025, the placement in custody of the lawyer and former administrative judge. The public prosecutor’s office at the Tunis Court of Appeal ordered the opening of judicial information against him with the pole, for a series of accusations related to terrorism as well as related ordinary crimes.
These accusations include in particular: the threat of committing terrorist acts in order to force a person to act or to refrain from it, endangering a person benefiting from protection, and threats punishable by criminal sanctions.
Yesterday, on the sidelines of the arrest of Ahmed Souab, the spokesperson for the judicial center to fight terrorism, said that the investigation against the lawyer was launched after the broadcast of a video showing Ahmed Souab in front of the lawyer’s house on April 19, 2025.
In this sequence, he would have declared, in Tunisian dialect: “The knives are not for the prisoners, the knives are for the judge of the chamber which will now rule on several files”, while mimicking a gesture of slaughter with his hand at the neck.
She specified that this act was noted by the national unity to combat terrorist crimes, in a report transmitted by the prosecution of the anti -terrorist judicial center to the Attorney General, taking into account the status of lawyer for the person concerned. The judicial information was opened due to the severity of the facts, after having followed the legal procedures required for a lawyer.
The Council of the National Order of Lawyers in Tunisia reacted strongly. In a statement published on April 22, he denounced the proceedings engaged against Me Souab, seeing serious attacks on the right to a fair trial, respect for the defense and the presumption of innocence.
