TUNIS: Former Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has been sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for corruption in connection with concerts given by US pop diva Mariah Carey, the prosecutors' office told AFP late Friday.

Ben Ali, who is living in exile with his wife in Saudi Arabia since fleeing the north African country during the 2011 revolution, has already been convicted in absentia several times.

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