Mohamed Ben Slama's naked woman with bearded men standing behind her. |
Thursday 5 July 2012
Govt Official Convicted Over Starting 'Un-Islamic Art' Riots
Posted on 03:59 by john mical
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TUNISIA---A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced to two months in jail a court official on charges of inciting a wave of riots by condemning an art exhibit as offensive to Islam, his lawyers told AFP. Bouaziz was arrested in mid-June and accused of triggering riots that engulfed several parts of Tunisia on June 11 and 12, which left one dead and more than 100 wounded, by calling for a protest against an exhibit at a gallery in Tunis. The exhibit included a painting of a naked woman with bearded men standing behind her and a piece spelling the world “Allah” with a file of ants. The vandalism was followed by two days of violence. [link]
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