#Tunisia Jails Blogger for Six Months for “Defaming” Army
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A Tunisian military appeals court jailed blogger #Yassine_Ayari for six months on Tuesday on charges of defaming the army, halving the previous sentence but failing to satisfy its critics. Chants of “Down with the military judge” rang out from the public gallery as the sentence was read out. Ayari was prosecuted over blog posts he had written alleging financial abuses by army officers and defense ministry officials in a case that #Human_Rights_Watch described as "not worthy of the new Tunisia.” read more