Woman convicted of racism
Publish date: 11 February 2019
Issue Number: 810
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: General
* A Tunisian court has given a five-month suspended jail sentence to a mother who racially abused a black school teacher after her daughter was thrown out of a class. The conviction is the first under the country's new anti-racism law. Rights groups say black people are routinely subjected to discrimination.
