{"id":1837,"date":"2025-05-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:08:36","slug":"expeerience-talk-16-maroc-et-tunisie-comment-les-citoyen%c2%b7ne%c2%b7s-percoivent-les-delits-mineurs-et-les-peines-alternatives-a-la-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/2025\/05\/14\/expeerience-talk-16-maroc-et-tunisie-comment-les-citoyen%c2%b7ne%c2%b7s-percoivent-les-delits-mineurs-et-les-peines-alternatives-a-la-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"ExPEERience Talk #16 \u2013 Morocco and Tunisia: How Do Citizens Perceive Minor Offences and Alternatives to Prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When?<\/strong>Thursday 5 June 2025 \u2013 1 PM (GMT+1, Tunis, Rabat, Bangui, Kinshasa, Niamey) | 1 PM (GMT+2, Brussels, Paris, Rome)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language <\/strong>: French<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free webinar \u2013 registration required<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Morocco and Tunisia, criminal laws continue to punish behaviour linked to precariousness, marginalisation, or activism. As part of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty, Status and Activism<\/a>has conducted two national surveys (in Morocco and Tunisia) on the perception of minor offences and alternative sentences. To share these surveys, ASF invites you to the ExPEERience Talk #16<\/a><\/mark><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The polls were conducted among a representative sample according to gender, age, region and socio-professional category. The aim was to assess Moroccan and Tunisian public opinion on the issue of criminalising minor offences <\/strong>(defined as \u2018 minor offences that do not disturb public order, offences that criminalise people for what they are (poor, marginal, etc.)<\/em>\u2019), and alternatives to deprivation of liberty<\/strong>, which are penalties imposed in place of custodial sentences for offences punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These offences - such as begging, vagrancy, or certain moral offences - primarily affect poor, homeless, migrant, LGBTQI+, and\/or committed people. Often inherited from the colonial era, these laws contribute to criminalising life situations, exacerbating exclusion, and worsening prison overcrowding. These surveys reveal a a growing gap between judicial practices and citizen's expectations, <\/strong> , which are penalties imposed in place of custodial sentences for offences punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives of ExPEERience Talk #16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n