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A Tunisian court Wednesday condemned a journalist and virulent critic of President Kais Saied to six months in prison for defaming a civil servant, his brother and lawyer told AFP. Mohamed Boughalleb was arrested by a cybercrime unit a month ago following a complaint filed by a civil servant. The complainant, a woman working in the Tunisian ministry of religious affairs, accused Boughalleb of “damaging her honour and reputation” in Facebook posts and according to local media. Boughalleb had suggested on social media and private radio that overseas trips by the official were a form of “corrupti…

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