Tunisia's state prosecutor on Friday appealed against a judge's decision to release opposition figure Chaima Issa four months after she was detained for "plotting" against the state, according to her lawyers. Issa would have walked free following a decision taken by the counterterrorism court, but the prosecution appealed against it. In fact, it's a sign of the instability in Tunisia," shares Ahmed Néjib Chebbi, president of the National Salvation Front. The member of Tunisia's main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front (NSF), was arrested along with some 20 other opposition members, media and business figures in February. So personally, I think that the decision to release Chaïma Issa cannot be an autonomous decision by the examining magistrate.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 24, 2023 08:03 UTC