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Former Tunisian presidential advisor gets 4 month suspended sentence

22 September 2012 20:16 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Former Tunisian presidential advisor Ayoub Messaoudi received a four-month suspended sentence by a Tunis military tribunal on Saturday, APA reports.

Messaoudi will also have to pay a one dinar symbolic fine, however he will be free to travel after an injunction preventing him from leaving the country was lifted.

The former presidential advisor was charged for defaming the country’s military authority, after he accused the army chief of staff and defense minister of not informing the president of the extradition of Gaddafi’s former prime minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi in June.

At the time, the government’s decision to extradite Mahmoudi, triggered the ire of the Tunisian president, a former rights defender, plunging the country into a political crisis.

Meanwhile, in a surprise move on Saturday, Tunisia’s president Moncef Marzouki decided to appoint a military advisor in the person of Brahim Ouechtati a Colonel-major, the country’s official TAP press agency reported.