Tunisian President fires 57 judges for corruption

• Tunisian President Kais Saied dismisses 57 judges for corruption and concealing terrorism cases.
• Names of judges who “disrupted investigations into a total of 6,268 terrorism files” will be made public.
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  Saied dissolved the country’s Superior Council of the Judiciary earlier this month.

Tunisian President Kais Saied signed a presidential decree late Wednesday dismissing 57 judges for corruption and concealing terrorism cases.

The presidential proclamation was published in Tunisia’s official biweekly newspaper, the Journal of the Republic of Tunisia.

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The president further stated that the names of judges who “disrupted investigations into a total of 6,268 terrorism files and perpetrated financial and moral corruption” would be made public.

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A week later, he signed a presidential decree forming a more transitory council to replace the dissolved one.

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