Tunisian Interior Ministry confirms travel ban against former Minister of Religious Affairs

Aug. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior has confirmed in a statement the travel ban against former Minister of Religious Affairs Noureddine El Jadmi, who is holding a sit-in at the Tunis-Carthage airport in protest of his constitutional right to travel.

The Ministry of the Interior stated in a statement late on Saturday that there is a “judicial quarantine” against Jadmi, who has denounced through her official Facebook account that she has been banned from traveling seven times without legal reasons.

In this sense, the former Minister of Religious Affairs and former member of the Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda, who was going to travel to work in a Gulf country, has indicated that there is no judicial follow-up or a sentence against him.

Ennahda has issued a statement in which it has denounced “the continuous abuse of rapists and their deprivation of constitutional rights” by denying El Jadmi the possibility of traveling “for no apparent reason”, according to Kapitalis.