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Tunisian judge lets Rached Ghannouchi leave after court hearing

Ghannouchi's legal team has dismissed Tuesday's hearing as 'political theatre' [Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

Tunisia’s main opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi, was allowed to return home after a court hearing in a money-laundering investigation that his Ennahdha party rejects as a political ploy.

The preliminary hearing before an investigative judge at a court in the capital, Tunis, lasted nearly 10 hours and followed warnings from activists that the authorities were contemplating arresting the 81-year-old Ghannouchi to hold in pre-trial detention.

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