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A Tunisian court has dropped a long-running, symbolic case against a gay rights activist who faced prison for alleged homosexual acts, a court official and a rights group said.

14April 2021 The football stadium of Kef – a town in the north-western mountains of Tunisia – has been given more attention in the last few months than at any time in its history. Up until January 29, the public facility had been neglected for years – never repainted, maintained or used for official sports competitions. Then, a group of guys were caught smoking hash in a small space beneath the commentator stand. It became front-page national news when three of them were given a 30-year p...