Advertising signs for a website that offers divorce counselling between Al-Azwah in Tunisia were promoted, and this was seen as support for divorce and a promotion of family dissolution.
Under the slogan “Divorce is your decision and we have the procedures” signs have spread in the streets of the capital Tunis, to promote a new website specializing in divorce cases and provides services and consulted to facilitate this process among husbands.
The website allows users to assign someone to handle their divorce-related matters, follow up with them, and offer aid, counsel, and legal advice in exchange for a charge that starts at 1200 Tunisian dinars (about 400 dollars).
Hatem Al-Mazyu, the dean of the Bar Association, condemned the action in a statement, calling it “a conversion and impersonation of a lawyer and the work of his jurisdiction without anyone else,” and warning that legal action would be taken in an urgent, civil, and Algerian manner against anyone involved in these “dangerous abuses and practises that violate the law and the diamond Among the rights and data of citizens and from the proper functioning.”
The municipality of Tunis, the country’s capital, asked that the signs be taken down from the streets or else they will be taken down within two weeks because they believe they have a “sort of provocation” and “uncomfortable publicity.”
Mohamed Ali Samrani, an activist, criticised this advertising campaign on social media, saying that it “encourages divorce and family disintegration has become public and through public comments and websites,” while the activities were considered kindergarten-level. He added that this publicity is “a type of sanctification of citizens through Accordingly, the possibility of his representation in court, while he worked and exclusively worked for lawyers, “adding that” spread.
Unofficial figures show that Tunisia reports 43 divorce cases each day, or around 16,000 cases annually.
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