Tunisia: Mosaique FM journalist jailed for 5 years on appeal ...Kuwait

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A Tunisian appeals court has handed a five-year jail term to a radio journalist for disclosing information about the security services, his lawyer said Tuesday. Khalifa Guesmi of the private Mosaique FM radio station had appealed a one-year jail term handed down in November before the sentenced was increased under an anti-terrorism law. "This is the heaviest sentence pronounced by the Tunisian courts against a journalist," Amira Mohamed, vice-president of Tunisian journalists' union Snjt, told AFP. "It presents a dangerous authoritarian drift and is a flagrant attack on the freedom of the press." Guesmi was found guilty of having taken part in intentionally disclo

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