Source: Yahoo News
Tunis (AFP) – A Tunisian court Monday sentenced to one month in prison a man who smoked a cigarette in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk holy fasting month of Ramadan, a spokesman said.
The man was seen smoking outside the Bizerte courthouse by a judiciary official who informed the police before they arrested him and referred him to the prosecution, the spokesman Chokri Lahmar told AFP.
He said the man had 10 days to appeal before the sentence takes effect.
On June 1 four men were sentenced to one-month jail terms for eating in public during Ramadan.
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