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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Elizia Volkmann

Wave of raids, arrests target government critics in Tunisia

Demonstrators agitate against Tunisian President Kais Saied on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising, in Tunis, January 14, 2023 [File: Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters]

Tunis, Tunisia – Mounia Brahim shakes as she recounts the arrest of her husband Abdelhamid Jelassi, a former politician from the Ennahdha party, from their home in the Tunisian capital.

“About 8pm Saturday [February 11], there was a banging on the garden gate. In the time it took my husband to walk to the front gate [to see who it was], uniformed policemen were climbing over our garden wall, then walked straight into our apartment, taking his phone and iPad and my mobile and laptop,” she said.

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