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Title: Tunisian rapper gets jail term for calling police dogs in song
Post by: riky on March 23, 2013, 08:00:23 AM
Tunisian rapper gets jail term for calling police dogs in song

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court has sentenced a rap singer to two years in jail in absentia for insulting the police in a case likely to fuel debate over free speech under the Islamist-led government. The singer, known as Weld el 15, is on the run. Two of his associates, singers Mohamed Hedi Belgueyed and Sabrine Klibi, were in court when they received suspended sentences of six months each, a Justice Ministry source said on Friday. Belgueyed and Klibi were arrested earlier this month for a music video (http://www.youtube. ...

Source: Tunisian rapper gets jail term for calling police dogs in song (http://news.yahoo.com/tunisian-rapper-gets-jail-term-calling-police-dogs-120327837.html)