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A Tunisian court sentenced 21 top politicians and officials to prison sentences ranging from 12 to 35 years. President Kais Saied has been accused of using the judiciary to crack down on opponents.<\/em><\/p>\n Tunisia<\/a>\u00a0sentenced several top politicians and officials including opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to jail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n A court sentenced a total of 21 people to 12 to 35 years in prison in a mass trial.<\/p>\n Ten are already in custody and 11 have fled the country.<\/p>\n The charges include participating in an…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A Tunisian court sentenced 21 top politicians and officials to prison sentences ranging from 12 to 35 years. President Kais Saied has been accused of using the judiciary to crack down on opponents. Tunisia\u00a0sentenced several top politicians and officials including opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to jail on Tuesday. A court sentenced a total of 21 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,31292,7079,257,5675,9735,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-202084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghannouchi","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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