Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judge decided to imprison Ali Laarayedh, a former prime minister and senior official in the Islamist Ennahda party, after hours of investigation into suspicions of sending militanrs ti fight in to Syria, lawyers said on Monday.
“The investigative judge issued a prison decision against former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh in what is known as the deportation file,” lawyer Ines Harrath said.
“This is true,” Mokthat Jmayi, another Laarayedh lawyer, told Reuters, without giving further details.
Ennahda denied in a statement accusations of terrorism, calling it a political attack on a foe of President Kais Saied to hide “the catastrophic failure of the elections”.
Only 11.2 percent of Tunisian voters cast ballots in the parliamentary elections, Farouk Bouasker, the head of the electoral commission, said after most political parties boycotted the vote as a charade to shore up President Kais Saied's power.
