The head of Tunisia's opposition National Salvation Front (NFLP), Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, reported receiving a letter from an investigative judge to track a number of lawyers and 23 figures who will be investigated.
Chebbi expected to be arrested after receiving the letter in connection with the case known as conspiracy against state security.
He said – during a press conference of the Front – that the battle with President Kais Saied and his executive authority is not the field of the judiciary, but the political arena.
Lawyer Ayachi Hammami said the same charges of conspiracy against state security will be investigated against a number of politicians and activists.
He added that the police dealing by Kais Saied and his authority continues and the scope of repression continues, as he put it.
Chebbi revealed earlier this month that he is waiting to appear in court soon, hinting that he could be arrested in what is known as a case of conspiracy against state security.
The head of the Salvation Front also spoke about upcoming judicial interrogations that will include him before the investigating judge, stressing that he will inform the judge when he appears before him of his conviction that "these trials are only political."
He stressed that the movements demanding the release of political detainees by the Front will not stop.
In a related context, the head of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, Bassam Tarifi, described – in a statement to a local radio – the human rights situation in Tunisia as worrying and dangerous with regard to public and individual freedoms.
Tarifi pointed out that the dialogue initiative prepared by civil organizations, including the Human Rights League, is ready and waiting for the right circumstance to announce it.
It is noteworthy that Tunisian security arrested on April 17, a member of the Salvation Front, head of the Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, after raiding his house, before the Court of First Instance in the capital Tunis ordered his imprisonment in the case of statements attributed to him to incite against state security.
Since February 11, Tunisia has witnessed a campaign of arrests that included politicians, media, activists, judges and businessmen, and Tunisian President Kais Saied accused some of the detainees of conspiring against state security and standing behind the crises of distributing goods and rising prices.
The Tunisian president has repeatedly stressed the independence of judicial authorities, but the opposition accuses him of using the judiciary to prosecute those who reject exceptional measures that began to be imposed on July 25, 2021, creating a severe political crisis in the country.