During his visit to Tunisia - today, Monday - Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani expressed his country's support for the recent decisions taken by President Qais Saeed, according to what was announced by the Tunisian presidency.
Upon receiving Al-Zayani at the Carthage Palace, Saeed said that the exceptional measures that had been taken "aimed at putting an end to tampering with the state and its capabilities and assuming responsibility, especially since the situation can no longer continue as it was," according to a statement by the presidency.
The statement stated that the Bahraini Foreign Minister - who conveyed a verbal message from Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa - expressed his country's support for the Tunisian president's decisions, and stated that Bahrain considers what happened in Tunisia as a sovereign matter that no party has the right to interfere in.
In the meantime, the Tunisian Public Prosecution prevented today, Monday, 12 people from traveling on suspicion of financial and administrative corruption.
The Tunisian news agency quoted the spokesman, Mohsen Al-Dali, as saying, "The Public Prosecution of the Economic and Financial Judicial Pole took over the travel ban on 12 suspects on suspicion of financial and administrative corruption in the extraction and transportation of phosphates."
The suspects include a former minister of industry and small and medium-sized enterprises, Nabeel Mojamed and his brother, and former and current directors of the "Gafsa Phosphate Company".
Administrative decisions
In previous statements, Al-Dali said that the judiciary does not issue decisions banning travel except within the framework of criminal cases, and he did not rule out the existence of decisions to ban travel - describing them as administrative - in which the judiciary has nothing to do with, as he put it.
On the other hand, the head of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, Fathi Gray, said that the commission had identified officials under house arrest, but had not obtained their names from any official body.
He added that among them are the director of the competent departments in the Ministry of the Interior, Lazhar Longo, the former Minister of Transport, Anwar Maarouf, and the first president of the Court of Cassation in Tunisia, Tayeb Rashid.