TUNIS: A former interior minister under Tunisia’s ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, jailed for the repression of anti-government protests, was freed from prison yesterday, his lawyer said.
“Rafik Belhaj Kacem left prison today. He has served the whole of his sentence,” Abeda Kefi said, adding the ex-minister was sick and taken to a clinic.
Kacem was sentenced to a lengthy prison term for “premeditated murder”. But the sentence was commuted in April to a three-year term.
Benghazi spy chief killed
TRIPOLI: Gunmen assassinated a top government intelligence official in Benghazi yesterday, a day after a political leader in the flashpoint city of eastern Libya rejected the election of a new prime minister.
Colonel Ibrahim Al Senussi Akila, head of general intelligence in Benghazi, was shot dead in the centre of the Mediterranean city, a security source said. “He was in his car when unknown assailants opened fire. He was hit twice, once in the neck,” the source said.
AFP
