00:01Tunisia's former Prime Minister Ali Larayed was sentenced to 24 years in prison late on Thursday
00:07for allegedly aiding Tunisian jihadists travel to Syria.
00:12The 70-year-old politician was first sentenced last May to a 34-year jail term.
00:18The Tunis appeals court has now upheld that sentence, although lowered by 10 years.
00:26Larayed, part of the Islamist opposition party Ennada, is accused of having aided jihadists
00:31from Tunisia travel to Syria during the years of the Syrian civil war.
00:36These accusations, however, have been criticised for lacking evidence of such help.
00:42Ennada condemned the court's decision as politically motivated.
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