Tunisian president’s crackdown leads to arrest and detentions

Barbed wire and a military armoured personnel carrier block a side entrance of the Tunisian parliament (Hassene Dridi/AP)

Tunisian authorities jailed an opposition politician and briefly detained four members of the powerful Islamist movement Ennahdha in the wake of the president’s decision to seize exceptional powers, according to Tunisian media reports.

The Ennahdha members were brought before investigating magistrates and accused of trying to incite violence outside the parliament building after President Kais Saied’s announcement, according to party official Riadh Chaidi.