The defense team of the leader of the Ennahda movement, Noureddine al-Buhairi, held President Kais Saied and Interior Minister Tawfiq Sharaf al-Din responsible for his life, stressing that he was in a dangerous stage, and demanded his immediate release.
And the authority announced, on Saturday, that Al-Buhairi's health condition "has reached the stage of extreme danger and threatens to enter a phase of no return."
The authority said in a statement, "Following the visit of (lawyer) Saeeda Al-Akrimi to her husband, Al-Buhairi, the direct doctor called her and informed her that his health condition had reached the stage of extreme danger."
The statement added that Al-Buhairi's health condition "warns of entering a phase of no return", and that the doctor asked Al-Akrimi to "sign a document disclaiming responsibility" for the direct doctors for her husband's health condition.
And he added, "In light of this dangerous development, the defense team calls for an immediate end to the arbitrary detention of al-Buhairi, and holds the Minister of Interior, Tawfiq Sharaf al-Din, personally responsible for his life."
There was no immediate comment from the Tunisian authorities on the authority's statement.
A member of the defense confirmed that the judges refused to move any traces against Al-Buhairi and that the doctors wanted to dismiss them.
On January 3, the Tunisian Minister of Interior announced that Al-Buhairi and the former official in the Ministry of Interior, Fathi Al-Baldi, had been placed under house arrest on charges related to “suspicion of terrorism” related to the “illegal method” of obtaining Tunisian travel and citizenship documents for a Syrian and his wife.
On Sunday, Al-Buhairi was transferred to the intensive care unit in a hospital in the city of Bizerte (north), after his health deteriorated as a result of his hunger strike, in refusal to have him detained since December 31.
The Al-Buhairi case came in light of a political crisis that Tunisia has been experiencing since last July 25, when Said imposed exceptional measures, including freezing the powers of Parliament, issuing legislation by presidential decrees, dismissing the prime minister, and appointing new ones.
The majority of political and civil forces in Tunisia, including these measures, reject these measures, and consider them a "coup against the constitution."