Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 gets four-month sentence in retrial
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Tunisian rapper Ala Yaacoubi, better known by his rap name "Weld El 15”, arrives at the courthouse for his appeal trial on December 5, 2013 in the Hammamet suburb of Nabeul. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)
A Tunisian rapper who went on the run after receiving a 21-month jail sentence in absentia in August for songs deemed insulting to police was jailed for four months at a retrial Thursday. Weld El 15, whose real name is Alaa Yacoubi, had surrendered to the authorities at the courthouse for the hearing. The court found him guilty of affront to public decency and insulting behavior towards public servants in his songs, and ordered him taken straight to the cells to serve his sentence. read (...)
