Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 acquitted
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A file picture taken on December 5, 2013 shows Tunisian rapper Alaa Yaacoubi, better known by his rap name "Weld El 15”, arriving at the courthouse for his appeal trial in the Hammamet suburb of Nabeul. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)
Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 was acquitted on appeal of singing songs deemed insulting to the police and is to be freed later Thursday, his lawyer Ghazi Mrabet told AFP. The ruling comes amid ongoing human rights concerns under #Tunisia's Islamist-led coalition government, almost three years after a popular uprising ousted veteran strongman Zine El Abidine Ben and triggered revolutions across the region. read (...)