Tunisian opposition leader Chebbi arrested as crackdown escalates

TUNIS: Tunisian police on Thursday arrested top opposition figure Nejib Chebbi to enforce a 12-year jail term on a conviction for conspiracy, his family said, the latest sign of an escalating crackdown on political dissent by President Kais Saied. Chebbi, 82, has been a prominent opposition figure since the 1970s, throughout the autocratic presidencies of Habib Bourguiba, the country’s first leader, and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was toppled in the 2011 pro-democracy uprising.

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