Former Tunisian presidential chief Nadia Okacha accused unnamed parties of "fabricating cases and defamation", commenting on her name being included in a leaked list of former politicians and security officials accused in what is known as the case of conspiracy against state security.
Okasha said – in a post on Facebook – on Wednesday, "Once again my name is thrown into a list composed of those with whom I cannot bring anything together," stressing that she will return to Tunisia and make what she has "so that Tunisians know who is a traitor and a conspirator," as she described.
Recently, some leaked investigation documents on the so-called conspiracy against state security revealed that among the names of the defendants in the case are: Nadia Okasha, former Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, dissolved Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, and a number of security leaders arrested in other cases.
Samir Dilou, a member of the defense of political prisoners, revealed – in a phone call with Al Jazeera – that a new lawsuit has been filed with the Anti-Terrorism Judicial Complex at the Court of First Instance in Tunis against 21 senior state officials and former heads of government on charges of conspiring against state security.
Since February, Tunisia has witnessed a campaign of arrests involving politicians, media professionals, activists, judges and businessmen.
Tunisian President Kais Saied accused some of the detainees of conspiring against state security and being behind the crises of distributing goods and rising prices, 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, which created a political crisis in the country.