
FILE PHOTO: Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a statement on the coronavirus vaccination in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian police on Monday detained two prominent opponents of President Kais Saied and the head of a radio station that has broadcast criticism of the president, part of a wave of arrests targeting politicians and other critics of the government.
Police raided the house of Noureddine Bhiri, a senior official in the biggest opposition party Ennahda and a prominent critic of Saied, and took him away, his lawyer Samir Dilou said by phone.
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