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A Tunisian court overturned on Wednesday a journalist’s prison sentence for revealing information about the security services, his lawyer said, paving the way for a retrial. Khalifa Guesmi, a correspondent for Tunisia’s most popular radio station Mosaique FM, was convicted in November and handed a one-year prison sentence that was later increased to five years on appeal. The Court of Cassation “invalidated the five-year judgement and ordered it to be reviewed”, Guesmi’s lawyer, Rahal Jallali, told AFP. He said Guesmi should be released by Thursday morning. The journalist remains under prosecut…