Ahead Of Election, Jail Term Upheld For Tunisian Presidential Candidate(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Tunisian court has confirmed an imprisonment sentence earlier handed down to a presidential contender ahead of elections scheduled for Sunday in the North African country. The appeals court in the city of Jendouba in western Tunisia had upheld the 20-month jail sentence against detained presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel, his lawyer said. The Oct. 6 polls are pitting incumbent President Kais Saied against Zammel and Zouhair Maghzaoui of the leftist nationalist People’s Movement. Serious challengers to Saied, who is seeking a second term in office, have been excluded, according to observers. The election commission has recently refused to reinstate three more presidential hopefuls who won court appeals to run for president.