A court in the Tunisian city of Sfax has pressed a five-month suspended sentence on a Tunisian woman convicted for abusing a teacher of black skin. This appears as the first court condemnation of a racism case in Tunisia, The National comments. The judgement came under the anti-racism law passed in October to address racism and discrimination against black Tunisians and Sub-Saharan migrants. Tunisian and foreign activists in the country have sounded the alarm for the increase of racism incidents in the North Africa country. Several people were arrested in connection with the crime that authorities related to the theft of Coulibaly’s cell phone.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 08, 2019 14:48 UTC