The Tunisian judiciary ordered on Sunday the arrest of the former president of the Court of Cassation Tayeb Ras and the former prosecutor of first instance of the capital Al Bashir al Akrami, accusing both of having committed corruption offenses.
The two judges, who were disqualified in August along with 50 other magistrates by decree of Tunisian President Kais Saied – accused by his detractors of abusing his authority to try to control the judicial system at all costs -, according to Mosaique FM.
The former president of the Court of Cassation has been arrested by order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office on the basis of legal proceedings published against him by the Tunisian judiciary in connection with an alleged case related to suspicions of corruption.
Meanwhile, the former prosecutor of first instance has been arrested in compliance with the instructions ordered by another prosecutor of first instance of the city of Tunis, as detailed by the mentioned radio station, for the mishandling of an alleged file related to the assassination of the politician Chokri Belaid, leader of the Unified Democratic Patriotic Movement, a Marxist and pan-Arab force.
Belaid led a campaign of denunciations against the alleged complicity of the Islamist party Ennahda and the Leagues for the Defense of the Revolution, which some opponents describe as the armed wing of the Islamist movement.
The president indicted in June 2022 nearly 60 judges whom he accuses of involvement in corruption cases and even of giving protection to terror suspects, as part of measures taken since he dissolved the government in July 2021 and suspended parliament to arrogate to himself all powers.
Following this, Tunisia’s Administrative Court in August reinstated in their respective posts some 50 judges expelled by a decree of Kais Saied, whom his detractors have accused of abusing his authority to try to control the judiciary at all costs.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
