TUNIS: A rapper has been sentenced to two years in jail in absentia for insulting the Tunisian police.
The performer, known as Weld el 15, is on the run. "I was only using the language of the police. They have harassed me verbally and physically," he said in a video posted on Facebook. Two other singers received suspended sentences of six months.
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