Tunisia would-be hopefuls arrested, restrained amid presidential race

Abir Moussi, 49, head of the Free Destourian Party and a former parliament member, had submitted her candidacy on Saturday via her lawyers, two days before her sentence, which local radio Mosaique FM reported. Moussi is a staunch critic of the incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied and has been sentenced under Decree 54, a law enacted by Saied in 2022 to combat "false news". The High Independent Authority for Elections (ISIE) filed complaints against Moussi in February after she made public statements...