TUNIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa on Saturday to enforce 20-year prison sentence, detaining her at a protest in the capital, lawyers said. An appeals court on Friday handed jail terms of up to 45 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiracy to overthrow […]
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Tunisian police arrest prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa to enforce 20-year jail term
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TUNIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa on Saturday to enforce 20-year prison sentence, detaining her at a protest in the capital, lawyers said.
An appeals court on Friday handed jail terms of up to 45 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the president, in what critics said was a sign of President Kais Saied’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Toby Chopra)