Ennahda played a central role in the country's politics until the power grab by Saied in July. (AFP Archive)Appeals have mounted for word on the whereabouts of detained Tunisian politician Noureddine Bhairi, a leader of the Ennahda party, the largest in the North African country's suspended parliament. Plain-clothes officers arrested Bhairi, a former justice minister and deputy president of Ennahda, in the capital Tunis on Friday. The body's president, Fathi al Jarray, said there had been "no response" from the interior ministry to its requests for information about the two men. Ezzedine said the interior ministry had ordered the pair under preventive detention without legal proceedings because they allegedly presented "'a danger to public order'."

Source: The North Africa Journal January 01, 2022 20:07 UTC