Court bans Tunisia’s party leader from travelling

A Tunisia court has barred the speaker of the country’s now-disbanded parliament from leaving the country, according to a court spokesman.

According to a court official, the interdiction against Rached Ghannouchi is part of an investigation into possible obstruction of justice in connection with the killing of two left-wing politicians in 2013.

According to Fatima Bouqtaya, a spokeswoman for the court in the Tunis suburb of Ariana, the travel restriction was issued on “34 suspects in this case, including Rached Ghannouchi.”

Ghannouchi is the leader of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, which has dominated Tunisia politics since the revolution.

President Kais Saied, who suspended the Ennahdha-dominated parliament, dismissed the prime minister, and took administrative powers in July 2021, is a strong adversary of Ghannouchi, 81.

Saied dissolved parliament in March of this year. His actions have fueled worries of a return to dictatorship in a country where a 2011 revolution sparked the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement in the region.

Tunisia’s judiciary started an inquiry into the suspects in January for allegedly “concealing facts” related to the murder of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi nine years ago.

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