Tunisia blogger gets 6 months for defaming army

March 03, 2015 18:30

A Tunisian military appeals court jailed blogger Yassine Ayari for six months on Tuesday on charges of defaming the army, halving the previous sentence but failing to satisfy its critics.

Chants of "Down with the military judge" rang out from the public gallery as the sentence was read out.

Ayari was prosecuted over blogs he had written alleging financial abuses by army officers and defence ministry officials in a case that Human Rights Watch described as "not worthy of the new Tunisia".

The 33-year-old is himself the son of an army colonel who was killed in a May 2011 clash with jihadists.

Ayari was initially tried in absentia and sentenced to three years in prison.

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The defence minister, however, said the matter is under the domain of the Union home ministry and it will take appropriate decisions.