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Tunisia Sentences Algerian-French dissident to Jail in Absentia

A police officer stands guard outside the parliament building in Tunis,Tunisia July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui, whose "exfiltration" via Tunisia sparked a diplomatic incident with Paris, was sentenced in absentia on Friday to three years in prison for illegally entering Tunisia, her lawyer said.

Bouraoui had been banned from leaving Algeria after being sentenced to two years in jail for "offending Islam" and for insulting the president.

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