TUNIS,AFRICA:A military court sentenced 11 Islamic radicals to life imprisonment recently for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and overthrow the government.
They were among 279 members or supporters of the banned fundamentalist group Annahda, or Renaissance, tried in the biggest legal proceed in years against fundamentalists, who seek Islamic rule in Tunisia, and Egypt.
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