A court in Tunisia on Wednesday sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to four years in prison for “assaulting the external security of the state” after he accused Tunisian President Kais Saied of staging a coup, TAP state news agency said.
From 2011 to 2014, Marzouki was president of Tunisia, a country often held up as the Arab Spring’s sole success story. In October, the Paris-based former president told a rally in the French capital that France should cut off support for Saeid’s government and “reject any support for this regime and this man who has plotted against the revolution and abolished the constitution.”
