Tunisia’s public prosecutor today ordered the detention of presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel pending trial, Reuters reported Zammel’s lawyer saying.
Zammel was arrested on Monday on suspicion of falsifying popular endorsements. He is one of the three candidates accepted in the presidential election expected next month, along with the current President Kais Saied and politician Zouhair Maghzaoui.
He has strongly denied the accusations and said he was facing “restrictions and intimidation” because he was a serious competitor to Saied.
Zammel’s lawyer Kais Oueslati said that the prosecutor had decided to keep him in custody pending trial, the date of which has not yet been set.
