TUNIS— A Tunisian military court sentenced a
journalist to four months in prison on Friday for “insulting” President Kais Saied,
the journalist’s lawyer said.
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Amer Ayad, a presenter on the private channel
Zitouna TV, is still at liberty pending an appeal, lawyer Samir Ben Amor said.
Ayad was charged in October last year after
delivering a heated monologue against Saied, who three months earlier had
sacked the government and suspended parliament in the birthplace of the 2011
Arab Spring uprisings.
Ayad had also criticized Saied’s nomination
of Prime Minister Najla Bouden, saying she would be “nothing more than a
servant of the sultan”.
He suggested that Saied had named Bouden, the
Arab world’s first female prime minister, after failing to find a man for the
job.
Ayad was arrested days later and detained for
two months.
Abdellatif Al-Aloui, a member of the
conservative Islamist movement Al-Karama who also appeared on Ayad’s show, was
sentenced to three months in prison in the same case and will appeal, Ben Amor
said.
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