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A Tunisian military court on Wednesday sentenced opposition figure Chaima Issa to a one-year suspended prison sentence for “offending” President Kais Saied, her lawyers said. Issa, 43, was found guilty of causing offence to Saied, spreading rumours to harm public security and inciting soldiers to disobey orders, her lawyer Dalila Ben Mbarek said in a Facebook post. Issa, a member of the National Salvation Front coalition, said after a court hearing Tuesday that Saied’s opponents were being treated like “criminals”. “We are not criminals,” she said. “We are not plotters. We are not traitors. We…

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