Tunisian Judge Lets Rached Ghannouchi Leave after Court Hearing

20/07/2022

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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