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Tunisia: Crisis deepens as opp’n leaders summoned for questioning

Ghannouchi, 81, was accused of having 'plotted against state security, which is a dangerous precedent', said party spokesman Imed Khemiri, who was also summoned [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]

Tunisian anti-terrorism police summoned the country’s main opposition figure for questioning on Friday as a political crisis deepens in the wake of President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve parliament and impose one-man rule.

Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahdha party and speaker of the dissolved parliament, met police after investigations were opened into other legislators who had defied Saied.

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