Tunisian President Kais Saied has amended a 2022 cybercrime decree, scrapping prison terms of up to five years for spreading "fake news" and limiting jail to a maximum of six months for repeat offenders only. Rights groups have long said the decree was used to prosecute journalists, lawyers and opposition figures, and Reporters Without Borders called the change "a step in the right direction" but still short of international press-freedom standards. The move matters because Tunisia, the only democracy to emerge from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, has seen freedoms rolled back since Saied's sweeping 2021 power grab.