Tunisia jails feminist activist for six months - lawyers


FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators protest to mark the anniversary of a prominent activist's death and against allegations of police abuse, in Tunis, Tunisia February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian judge sentenced on Thursday a feminist activist to six months in prison on charges of "insulting police and abuse of morals," her lawyers said, raising concerns about freedom of expression in the North African country a decade after its Arab Spring revolution.

Rania Amdouni, 26, a member of the human rights group Damj, Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality was arrested last weekend in Tunis, the country's capital. Amdouni was involved in the recent protests calling for social and economic justice and against police abuse during two last months.

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