{"id":59028,"date":"2020-01-19T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59028"},"modified":"2020-01-19T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:59:38","slug":"tunisia-condemns-eight-to-death-for-presidential-guard-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59028","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia condemns eight to death for presidential guard attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Tunisia-condemns-eight-to-death-for-presidential-guard-attack-841825?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/514\/51404631.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>TUNIS, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Tunisian court sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nov 24, 2015 suicide bombing in the capital Tunis claimed by the Daesh killed a dozen presidential guards and wounded 20 more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe court issued the death sentence against eight people accused of participating in the attack against the presidential guards\u2019 bus,\u201d deputy public prosecutor Mohsen Dali said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two others were sentenced to 10 years and life imprisonment respectively, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The convicted were all found guilty of \u201cvoluntary murder and belonging to terrorist groups,\u201d Dali said, without providing details about their identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only four of those convicted appeared in person at the trial, with the rest sentenced in absentia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia has imposed a moratorium on carrying out capital punishment since 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daesh claimed two other major attacks in Tunisia in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An attack at the capital\u2019s Bardo museum that March killed 21 foreign tourists and a security guard. In June 2015, 38 foreign tourists were killed in a shooting rampage at the coastal resort of Sousse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2019, a Tunisian court sentenced seven to life imprisonment for the attacks on Bardo and Sousse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia faced a rise in jihadist activity after its 2011 revolution, with attacks killing dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the security situation has significantly improved since the 2015 attacks, Tunisia has maintained a state of emergency for the last four years.  &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Tunisian court sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12. The Nov 24, 2015 suicide bombing in the capital Tunis claimed by the Daesh killed a dozen presidential guards and wounded 20 more. \u201cThe court issued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}