The Ennahda party in Tunisia denounced the accusations against its detained official, Noureddine El Beheiry, and said they bore a “political overtone”.
Tunisian Interior Minister Tawfiq Sharaf El-Din announced that two people, including an official of the Islamic Renaissance Party, were placed under house arrest because of “illegal submission of identity and citizenship documents and a serious suspicion of terrorism.”
On Friday, Tunisian authorities arrested Noureddine El-Beheiry, a leader in the Ennahda party, a suspended member of Parliament, and a former Minister of Justice.
The Ennahda movement’s block in the suspended parliament said in a statement that “the charges against Professor Noureddine Al-Behairi remain within the jurisdiction of the judiciary alone to decide on them, and only him, which confirms the political nature of everything he has been subjected to since his kidnapping last Friday.”
She added, “The step brings the country back to the square of tyranny and political trials.” She called for his release.
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