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7 Get Life in Prison for Tunisia's 2015 Terror Attacks

by Associated Press

   TUNIS, TUNISIA --

   A lawyer says Tunisian authorities have given seven suspects life in
   prison and handed out other sentences in the trial over two separate
   2015 attacks in Tunisia that killed some 60 people, mainly tourists.

   Samir Ben Amor, the lawyer for one of the 44 defendants, said the
   verdicts were handed down Saturday for the deadly attack against the
   country's famous Bardo Museum and a massacre at a popular seaside
   resort.

   He says other defendants received jail terms ranging from 16 years to
   six months, while the charges against 27 of the suspects were
   dismissed. No one got the maximum penalty of capital punishment.

   Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attacks, which,
   along with an attack on the Imperial Hotel, devastated the country's
   vital tourism sector and prompted foreign governments to issue travel
   warnings for Tunisia.