Tunisia’s Ennahda party official placed under house arrest for suspicions of terrorism -minister

TUNIS (Reuters) – Two Tunisians including an official of the Islamist Ennahda Party have been placed under house arrest, due to the illegal submission of passports and nationality documents and a serious suspicion of terrorism, the interior minister said on Monday.

Noureddine Bhairi, the senior official in Ennahda and former justice minister in 2011, was arrested Friday.

(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Chris Reese)

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