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Four people were sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid in 2013, the deputy public prosecutor of the anti-terrorist judicial division said Wednesday.Sentences ranging from two to 120 years were handed down to other defendants, while five were acquitted.
Tunisia still hands down death sentences, often in terrorism cases, despite a de facto moratorium put into effect in 1991.Jihadists with allegiance to the Islamic State claimed Belaid’s assassination as well as that of Mohamed Brahmi, another left-wing opposition figure, six months later.
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