TUNIS: The chief of Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired opposition celebration Ennahdha arrived Tuesday for questioning by an investigating decide at an anti-terror centre, simply days earlier than a hotly contested constitutional referendum.
Greater than 20 safety vans had been stationed in entrance of the headquarters of the anti-terror centre the place about 200 Ennahdha activists had been gathered in help of their chief Rached Ghannouchi, AFP correspondents stated.
Supporters chanted Ghannouchi’s title as he entered the constructing, making a V-sign with their fingers for victory and waving placards.
“Cease political trials”, one learn, written in each English and Arabic.
Ghannouchi, 81, has been beneath investigation since June amid allegations of corruption and cash laundering linked to transfers from overseas to the charity Namaa Tunisia, affiliated with Ennahdha.
As a part of the identical investigation, Tunisian authorities final month arrested former prime minister and one-time Ennahdha chief Hamadi Jebali for alleged money-laundering.
Jebali was later launched, however is because of face questioning on the allegations on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, a court docket ordered the freezing of the financial institution accounts of Ghannouchi and a dozen members of his household and his celebration — together with Jebali — as a part of this investigation.
In June, Ghannouchi was additionally handed a ban from travelling overseas as a part of a separate investigation into high-profile political assassinations that rocked the nation in 2013.
Ennahdha and Ghannouchi deny all expenses in opposition to them.
Tunisia’s long-running political disaster took a dramatic flip final July when President Kais Saied sacked the federal government, froze the Ennahdha-dominated parliament headed by Ghannouchi, and seized far-reaching powers.
Saied has put ahead a draft structure set for referendum on July 25, the anniversary of his energy seize.
Opponents accuse him of waging political vendettas and dragging the nation again to dictatorship, over a decade since its pro-democracy revolt sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.
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