The Republican Party in Tunisia announced today, Wednesday, the arrest of its Secretary-General, Issam Chebbi, by the country's anti-terrorism police.
The family of Chebbi, a prominent opponent of Tunisian President Kais Saied, said that the police arrested him today.
Tunisian lawyers also confirmed that the police arrested Chebbi in front of a shopping center while he was with his wife, before later searching his house.
The head of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, appeared before the investigators yesterday, Tuesday, in a case filed by a security union, and Ghannouchi said after that that what he described as a coup not only targets the Ennahda movement, but all national entities.
Last week, Tunisian security arrested both the leader of the Ennahda Movement, Noureddine al-Behairi, the former Minister of Justice, Noureddine Boutar, director of "Mosaique" radio station, and the political activist, Zahr al-Akrami.
In turn, the Ennahda movement condemned the arrest of a number of opponents and media professionals in the country, warning of the expansion of kidnappings and systematic abuse by the authorities, as described.
At the time, the Tunisian president accused some of the detainees of being responsible for "food shortages and high prices," vowing to move forward with the same strength and determination to "cleanse the country."
Despite President Saeed's repeated assurances of the independence of the judicial authorities, his opponents accuse him of using the judiciary to pursue those who reject exceptional measures that began to be imposed on July 25, 2021, which led to an ongoing severe political crisis.
The most prominent of these measures, which Saeed described as "necessary and legal" to save the state from a "total collapse", included: dissolving the Judicial Council and Parliament, issuing legislation by presidential decrees, approving a new constitution through a referendum in July 2022, and holding early legislative elections in December. the past.