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Rached Ghannouchi, the jailed leader of the Tunisian opposition party Ennahda, was sentenced Thursday to a new three-year prison term for the illegal financing of his party, his lawyer said. A rival of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, Ghannouchi – who was already serving a 15-month prison sentence over charges related to “terrorism” – was sentenced for receiving “foreign financing” for the Islamist party, his lawyer Sami Triki told AFP. His son-in-law Rafik Abdessalam, a former foreign minister, was tried in absentia in the same case and also sentenced to three years in prison. In addition to t…