Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Wednesday dissolved the country's parliament, which has been suspended since last year, and said lawmakers who defied him by voting to repeal decrees he used to assume near total power would be prosecuted.
On 25 July last year, the president froze the assembly, sacked the government and seized wide-ranging powers. Later he later gave himself powers to rule and legislate by decree, and earlier this year he seized control over the judiciary.
