Tunisian rapper Karim Gharbi seeking presidency sentenced to prison

Tunisian rapper Karim Gharbi, better known as K2Rhym, was sentenced to four years in prison in absentia Wednesday for allegedly buying voter signatures to qualify for upcoming presidential elections, a judicial spokesperson said according to reports by AFP. A court in Jendouba also fined Gharbi 5,000 dinars (around $1,600) and
stripped him of the right to vote, spokesman Alaedine Aouadi told AFP. Gharbi, who lives abroad and was the son-in-law of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, had announced in a video at the end of July his intention to run in the presidential candidate scheduled for October.