Tunis, Oct 21, 2026 (AFP) - Tunisia sentences 10 anti-pollution activists over protest

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2026-10-21

A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced 10 environmental activists to up to a year in prison over an anti-pollution protest they attended in 2020, a defence lawyer said. Eight of them were sentenced to six-month suspended sentences, lawyer Hamida Chaieb said. The activists had taken part in a demonstration against a major phosphate-processing factory in southern Tunisia's coastal city of Gabes, where locals have complained about pollution and hea......

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