TUNIS — A Tunisian military court upheld a one-year prison
sentence Friday against a prominent critic of
President Kais Saied convicted of
“attacking the dignity of the army”, his lawyer told AFP.
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The Tunis Military Court of Appeal also banned
Seifeddine Makhlouf, head of Islamist nationalist party Al-Karama, from working
as a lawyer for five years, lawyer Anouar Ouled Ali said.
Makhlouf had been arrested in September over a
dispute with military judges and handed a year-long suspended prison sentence
in February, after losing his parliamentary immunity following a power grab by
Saied last year.
On Friday, a judge ordered him to serve the jail
time, but his lawyer said he would appeal.
Makhlouf, who remains at large, is also appealing a
five-month prison sentence after being found guilty of insulting police during
a standoff at Tunis airport in March 2021.
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