Tunisian opposition party leader free after questioning View PhotoTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party was freed after being questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and terrorism financing through an association charity. Rached Ghannouchi, 81, the leader of the Islamist Ennahdha party was allowed to return home after over nine hours of hearings. Ghannouchi was among a dozen top party officials whose bank accounts the north African country’s central bank froze earlier this month. The Ennahdha party published a statement on its website attributed to its president in which he denounced “the slander and shenanigans” of Saied’s presidency. Saied and some others blamed Ennahdha in part for Tunisia’s political crisis last year.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 19, 2022 17:22 UTC