A legal source confirmed on Friday that the Chief Investigating Judge of the Tunis First Instance Court decided to impose a travel ban and set a residence restriction on Abdelatif almekki, the Secretary-General of the “Action and Achievement” party and presidential candidate.
The source also stated that Abdelatif Mekki was banned from appearing in the media.
In a statement to Anadolu Agency, defense team member lawyer Monia Bouali said: “The investigating judge responded to the defense team’s request to postpone the consideration of the case involving Mekki but took a series of precautionary measures.”
Bouali added that “the precautionary measures include a travel ban and restricting movement within the ward of El Wardia near the capital.”
On Tuesday, July 2, the Tunisian “Action and Achievement” party announced that its Secretary-General, Abdelatif almekki, had received a summons from the public prosecutor to appear before an investigating judge regarding the death of a former parliamentarian in 2014.
A week before that, the party announced its intention to nominate Mekki, a former Minister of Health, for the presidential elections on October 6.
In a statement on Tuesday, the party said: “Within just five days of this initial announcement of the candidacy, Abdelatif Mekki received a summons to appear before the investigating judge on Friday, July 12, in what is known as the case of the death of Jelani Daboussi.”
The party added that Abdelatif almekki “with a clear conscience and confident innocence, will appear before the judiciary.”
Daboussi, a businessman and parliamentarian during the era of the late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, died on May 7, 2014, hours after being released from prison, where he had been held since October 7, 2011, on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and favoritism.
In 2019, his family filed a complaint against the Tunisian authorities with the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the circumstances of his death after being held in pretrial detention for 31 months without trial.
On June 21, the investigating judge at the Tunis First Instance Court decided to imprison Ennahda Movement leader and former Minister of Justice Nourredine Bhiri in connection with Daboussi’s death.
source: lualuatv
