Tunisia: After the Military Trial to a Journalist Against the Backdrop of an Article, ANHRI Demands an End to the Military Trials to the Civilians

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Cairo — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the sentences issued by the Tunisian Military Court against the blogger and the journalist Hakem El-Ghameny, which fined him against the backdrop of an article in which he criticized one of the military hospitals.

The Permanent Criminal Court in Safaqes had issued a decision in the hearing held on Wednesday correspondent to the third of July 2013 which fined the Tunisian blogger and journalist "Hakim El-Ghanemy, by 240 Dinars on charges of insulting a public officer through pressing on him illegal activities to a public officer related to the exercise of his job without providing evidences regarding that.

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