Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisia’s electoral authority on Monday announced it had approved three presidential candidates for the October 6 election, including incumbent President Kais Saied, dismissing three other would-be candidates despite court rulings allowing them to run. The three dismissed candidates had last week won appeals at...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia accepted the files of three candidates late Saturday for the Oct. 6 presidential election. Chairman of the Authority, Farouk Bouasker, said at a news conference in Tunis that “the authority received, until the deadline for submitting candidacies on Aug. 5...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian President Kais Saied, in power since 2019, announced on Friday that he will seek a new five-year term in an election set for October. “I officially announce my candidacy for the October 6 presidential election in order to keep up the fight in the battle for national liberation,” Saied, who [&hell...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Tunisian security late Wednesday arrested the secretary-general of Republican People’s Union party over suspicion of “money laundering.” According to the local Mosaique radio, the security forces arrested Lotfi Mraihi based on an arrest warrant over suspicion of money laundering, smuggling of a...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Several hundred Tunisians marched through the capital chanting “down with the dictatorship” as they protested a spate of arrests under a presidential decree critics say is being used to stifle dissent. Two Tunisian media figures received one-year jail sentences earlier on Wednesday after making comments t...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence Friday against Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda Movement, in the case known as “Lobbying,” according to the Tunisian state news agency. A court sentenced Ghannouchi to three years on Feb. 1 on accusations of receiving foreign funding for ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian security forces stormed the bar association in Tunis and arrested lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani after she made comments on television about the state of the country, her lawyers said. The arrest late on Saturday was covered live by the France 24 news channel, which said it was forced [&helli...
Tunis, Tunisia – – AFP Tunisian journalists and opposition figures have voiced alarm about a surge of prosecutions since President Kais Saied issued a decree outlawing what authorities deem to be “false news”. Rights groups and lawyers say the measure stifles dissent in the North African country that was the birthplace ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Four people were sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid in 2013, the deputy public prosecutor of the anti-terrorist judicial division said Wednesday. A total of 23 people had been charged in connection with the murder of leftist Belaid. Se...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Tunisians are bracing themselves for more subdued celebrations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an economic crisis grips the North African country. In past years “you wouldn’t have been able to set foot in the market because it was so crowded”, vegetable merchant Mohamed Doryi shared. R...
