Jailed Tunisian political leader faces death penalty; lawyers appeal charges
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi has been questioned and detained on terrorism charges, prominent lawyer Khaled Ali said Thursday, according to AFP, two years after the dissident received a presidential pardon.
Ali said on Facebook that he was informed by authorities late Wednesday
that Abdelhadi had been taken to state security prosecution headquarters,
adding in a subsequent post that the "interrogation has now ended" and that
Abdelhadi had been transferred to prison.
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