Tunisia hands ex-ruler new jail term for corruption

‘A court in Tunisia has sentenced the country’s ousted dictator, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and his wife to 10 years in prison for corruption.
Ben Ali and his wife, who fled Tunisia to Saudi Arabia amid a revolution that toppled the then-ruler in 2011, were tried in absentia on several corruption charges at a Tunis court.
A spokesman for the prosecution, Sofiene Sliti, said on Thursday that the two had been found guilty by the court in a case involving “administrative and financial corruption” on Tuesday.’
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