TUNIS — A
Tunisian court has imposed a travel
ban on the speaker of the country's now-dissolved parliament, a court
spokeswoman said.
اضافة اعلان
The interdiction against
Rached Ghannouchi is part of an inquiry into alleged obstruction of justice in connection with
the assassination in 2013 of two left-wing figures, the court spokesman said on
Friday.
The travel ban was imposed on "34
suspects in this case, including Rached Ghannouchi," Fatima Bouqtaya,
spokeswoman for the court in the Tunis suburb of Ariana, told AFP.
Ghannouchi heads the Islamist-inspired
Ennahdha party that has dominated Tunisia's post-revolution politics.
Ghannouchi, 81, is a fierce critic of
President Kais Saied who in July 2021 suspended the Ennahdha-dominated
parliament, sacked the prime minister and assumed executive powers.
Saied then dissolved parliament in March
this year. His moves have stoked fears of a return to autocracy in a country
where a revolution in 2011 triggered the pro-democracy
Arab Spring movement in
the wider region.
Tunisia's judiciary in January opened an
investigation against the suspects for allegedly "concealing
information" linked to the killing nine years ago of
Chokri Belaid and
Mohamed Brahmi.
Daesh claimed both killings but Ennahdha
critics including a brother of one of the victims accused the party of having
"manipulated and slowed down" the case.
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