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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 (...)

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Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 gets four-month sentence in retrial | Al Akhbar English
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Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 gets four-month sentence in retrial

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 (...)

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Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 to appeal prison sentence
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Tunisian rapper Weld El 15, on the run since receiving a 21-month jail sentence in absentia in August, will appeal the ruling in court next month, his lawyer said on Friday. “I have contested the ruling against Weld El 15. The new trial will take place at the court in Hammamet on December 5,” Ghazi Mrabet told AFP, adding that his client would be present. The rapper, whose real name is Alaa Yaacoubi, and another musician Klay BBJ, were both given 21-month jail terms in absentia for performing songs deemed insulting to the police at a concert in the eastern town of Hammamet. read more

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Tunisian rapper #Klay_BBJ acquitted
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A picture taken on June 6, 2013 shows Tunisian rapper Ahmed Ben Ahmed, better known by his stage name Klay BBJ, attending the trial of fellow rapper Weld El 15 with other musicians in front of the court in the Tunis suburb of Ben Arous. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

Tunisian rapper Klay BBJ, jailed for six months in September for songs that allegedly insulted officials and public morals, was acquitted by an appeals court Thursday. "The court has decided to reject the (...)

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