Tunis: Three and a half years imprisonment for lawyer Muhammad Abou

A supreme Tunisian court sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for the Tunisian lawyer Muhammad Abou in two cases. The first pertains to attacking his colleague and the second under the charge of provocation.

Abou, who has been detained since two months, was convicted over attacking his friend in a case went back to 2002. He was also convicted of publishing false information and provoking violence against judicial establishments in a case that goes back to June 2004.

The sentence was issued on Friday morning following a trial took place in the presence of international observers for international organizations on human rights and representatives of western embassies as well as the international press. The defendant team considered that it did not receive minimum justice.