Overview
- Police detained Chebbi to enforce a 12-year sentence for conspiracy, his family and lawyer said.
- An appeals court last week imposed prison terms of up to 45 years on dozens of defendants in the same case.
- Authorities also arrested Chaima Issa to enforce a 20-year term and lawyer Ayachi Hammami for a five-year term, and both announced open-ended hunger strikes.
- About 40 people were charged in the sprawling case, which includes former intelligence chief Kamel Guizani, as security officials allege a plot to destabilize the state.
- Opposition groups and rights organizations denounce the proceedings as politically driven, while President Kais Saied portrays the prosecutions as a campaign against entrenched corruption and denies meddling in the judiciary.