International Desk, Bangladesh Global: Four people have been sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid in 2013, the deputy public prosecutor of the anti-terrorist judicial division said Wednesday.
A total of 23 people had been in charged in connection with the murder of leftist Belaid, a fierce critic of the then ruling Islamist party Ennahdha in his car outside his home.
Sentences ranging from two to 120 years were handed down to other defendants, while five were acquitted.
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