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Tunisia forces arrest senior opposition figure as crackdown escalates

Tunisia forces arrest senior opposition figure as crackdown escalates

Jaouhar Ben M’barek is most prominent opposition figure to be rounded up in president’s campaign of detentions

Tunisian security forces have arrested Jaouhar Ben M’barek, the most prominent opposition figure to be rounded up in an escalating campaign of detentions targeting rivals of the president, Kais Saied.

“Jaouhar was arrested late last night and we haven’t seen the charges against him,” his sister Dalila Msaddek, a lawyer, told AFP on Friday.

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