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Tunisian President Kais Saied consolidated his grip on the judiciary on Sunday with a decree allowing him to remove judges or block their promotion, helping to consolidate his power after he seized executive power last summer in a move his enemies call a coup. Saied outraged his opponents and intimidated democratic foreign allies with his announcement last week that he was dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council, a body that guaranteed the independence of the judiciary. A former constitutional lawyer…

Tunisian security forces on Friday arrested a member of parliament condemning President Kais Saied's seizure of power as a "military coup", his party said. "It's a military coup," independent MP Yassine Ayari said on…

Tunisia's judiciary said on Wednesday it was investigating the two main parties in parliament, both of which have accused the president of launching a coup after citing emergency powers on Sunday to take control of the government and freeze the legislature. The judiciary claims that the investigation began ten days before the president's move, but it will increase the pressure on the parties - Ennahdha and the heart of Tunisia. The parties were not immediately available for comment on the probe. A…