Senior official from Tunisia's Ennahda party released from house arrest


  • World
  • Tuesday, 08 Mar 2022

TUNIS (Reuters) - A senior official from the biggest party in Tunisia's suspended parliament was released from more than two months of detention early on Tuesday, his party said.

Noureddine Bhairi - vice president of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which has accused President Kais Saied of mounting a coup by dissolving parliament and seizing executive powers - arrived at his house at dawn in an ambulance, video showed.

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