FILE PHOTO: A man stands outside the Supreme Judicial Council building in Tunis, Tunisia February 6, 2022. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police have locked the doors of the Supreme Judicial Council, its head told Reuters on Monday, a day after President Kais Saied dissolved it, and have stopped staff from entering the building.
Saied's announcement has raised fears for the rule of law in Tunisia after his seizure of almost total power last summer in a move his critics have branded a coup, with judges' associations accusing him of an illegal act that undermines judicial independence.
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