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| Tunisia Court Slashes Sentence of Islamist for Incitement | |
| 2014-05-12 | |
| [AnNahar] Tunisia's appeals court has sharply reduced the jail sentence given to a leader of a controversial pro-Islamist militia blamed for inciting violence, its front man said Saturday. Imed Dghij, a senior figure with the League for the Protection of the Revolution (LPR), was incarcerated Please don't kill me! in February, after threatening police unions and a judges union. "We will not give ourselves up. We will win, and we will die only after we've finished with you, is that clear?" he had said. Dghij was sentenced in March to eight months in jail for inciting violence and six months for attacking others on social networks. On Friday, front man Habib Torkhani said without elaborating, the appeals court reduced the first sentence to three months and quashed the second one after reclassifying the offence.
Its members are suspected of lynching a member of secular party Nidaa Tounes in the southern city of Tataouine in 2012, and of attacking the headquarters of the main UGTT workers union later that year Since then, the UGTT and opponents of Ennahda, which was forced to hand power to a interim administration of independents in January to end a major political crisis, have demanded the dissolution of the different sections of the LPR. Following the appointment of Mehdi Jomaa's new technocratic government, the judiciary has launched several inquiries into these groups, despite the opposition of Ennahda, which remains Tunisia's largest political party. | |
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