Tunisia delays trial of suspects in US embassy attack

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A Tunisian court delayed for the third time Tuesday the appeals trial of Islamists accused of attacking the US embassy in 2012, with numerous defendants and lawyers absent. The appeals court in Tunis adjourned the trial until July 1 to appoint a lawyer for two of the accused, the judge said after a brief hearing. Last year, the public prosecutor appealed the two-year suspended jail terms given to 20 suspects for their roles in the attack, after the United States and Tunisia strongly criticised the leniency of the sentences. Hundreds of angry Islamist protesters attacked the US mission in Tunis after an American-made film mocking their religion was published on the Internet, unleashing a wave of violence across the Muslim world.

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