Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former Prime Minister
Hamadi Jebali, who can be a former senior member within the Ennahda
Islamist social gathering, on suspicion of cash laundering, his lawyer mentioned,
Pattern experiences citing
Reuters.
Police within the metropolis of Sousse seized Jebali’s telephone and his
spouse’s telephone and took him to an unknown location, in accordance with a
assertion by his household on Fb.
Jebali’s arrest raises opposition issues over the human rights
report since President Kais Saied seized management of government energy
final 12 months, in a transfer his opponents referred to as a coup.
The Inside Ministry declined to touch upon Jebali’s arrest.
The ministry referred to as a press convention for Friday, with out giving
any particulars.
Jebali’s defence crew mentioned they met him at his detention centre
of the investigation into terrorism crimes.
“Jebali informed us he is not going to reply the investigators’ questions
and he entered right into a starvation strike as the problem has a political
motivation and nothing to do with cash laundering”, Jebali’s
lawyer Mokhtar Jemai mentioned.
