The Sfax Court of Appeals is hearing the case of students Adam Hammami and Nia Hammadi

The Sfax Court of Appeal on Wednesday 11 November 2026 held its first hearings in the case against students Adam Hammami and Zia Hamdi, activists in the Tunisian campaign for boycott and anti-normalization. This trial comes after the public prosecutor's office appealed a preliminary ruling that their case was not heard.

The Intersectional Society for Rights and Freedoms expressed its full solidarity with the students and refused to criminalize peaceful anti-normalisation student activity, considering that the prosecution's appeal of the ruling prolonged the follow-up and raised fears of exercising pressure and intimidation on the rights of young people involved in public affairs. The Association pointed out that the tracking procedures were violations of fair trial guarantees and defense rights, where they were seized without a lawyer in violation of the provisions of the Journal of Criminal Procedure, as well as subjected to intimidation and detention of their personal data.

The Sfax Primary Court had ruled on 2 October 2025 not to hear the case and acquitted the plaintiffs of the charges, before the public prosecutor's office decided to appeal the decision and return the case to the appellate court more than a year after the initial ruling was handed down.