A public prosecutor in Tunisia says four people were sentenced to death and two to life in prison for the murder of a left-wing politician more than a decade ago
FILE - Tunisian lawyer Chokri Belaid attends a news conference at the lawyers' bar in Tunis on Dec. 29, 2010. Four people were sentenced Wednesday, March 27, 2024, to death and two given life imprisonment over the 2013 assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid. A Tunisian court sentenced four people to death and two to life in prison on charges stemming from the murder of a left-wing politician, a public prosecutor said Wednesday.
The case was reopened last month after a former investigating judge was arrested on suspicion of concealing certain files. Wednesday's verdict came after hours of late night delays and lengthy deliberations due to “the complexity of the very thorny case,” said Mohamed Jmour, a member of Belaid's defense committee.
Ennahda leaders classified Ansar al-Sharia as a terrorist group after the killing of another left-wing politician, Mohammed Brahmi, later that year. Law enforcement killed several alleged members of the al-Qaeda-linked group suspected of involvement in Belaid's death. The assassinations and subsequent unrest set off a political crisis for Tunisia as it struggled to transition from dictatorship to democracy.
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