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Going to the Dogs

Charles Oliver | 8.12.2013 6:00 AM


A Tunisian court sentenced rapper Ala Yaacoub, also known as Weld El 15, to two years in prison for insulting the police after he recorded a song that called police dogs and criticized them for being violent. An appellate court reduced that to a six-month suspended sentence.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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