· January, 2013

Stories about Tunisia from January, 2013

Tunisian Army Critic Gets a One-Year Suspended Jail Sentence

  5 January 2013

A military court increased Ayoub Massoudi's suspended jail term from four months to one year. Massoudi, a former advisor to Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, was charged with “defaming” the army and “undermining senior officials in the military”, over his declarations regarding the army's role in the extradition process of Muammar Gaddafi's Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoud from Tunisia to Libya.