Services cozy up to sentences Tunisia’s ex-president to 5 years
STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe ex- president is sentence into absentiaThe trial relates to a 1991 revolution attemptHe strategy to appeal, approved news agency says A Tunisian armed attract has sentenced ex- President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to five years into prison, the state-run Tunisian News Agency assumed Wednesday.Ben Ali was sentenced into absentia belatedly Tuesday in favor of his role into a 1991 project into which 17 servicemen were accused of plotting a rebellion versus his regime, the agency Tunis Afrique Presse understood.The excuse tactics to appeal, it added.
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