Tunisia – Extension of preventive detention of Riadh Ben Fadhl

The first investigating judge of the Financial Judicial Pole rendered a decision extending the protective arrest for an additional period of four months against the leader of the Pole Party, Riadh Ben Fadhl.

Security units had apprehended bin Fadhl on his return from abroad, and he was questioned by agents of the Central Division of the National Guard in Aouina, before being referred at the end of the period of custody to view, to the attention of the investigating judge at the Financial Judicial pole, who issued a arrest warrant .