The Tunisian government has issued an arrest warrant for a former presidential candidate, Nabil Karoui and his brother, a day after reports that they were detained in neighbouring Algeria.
Karoui was runner-up in Tunisia’s 2019 presidential election, a poll won by Kais Saied, who in July this year, suspended parliament and granted himself sweeping presidential powers.
Since then, there has been a wave of travel bans and house arrests targeting parliamentarians, magistrates and businessmen in an anti-corruption purge that has raised fears of a decline in freedoms
