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| Tunisia frees Salafist sheikh expelled by Egypt |
| 2013-04-06 |
[Al Ahram] Tunisia freed on Friday a Salafist sheikh enjuggedYou have the right to remain silent... on arrival after being expelled by Egypt for falsifying travel papers for jihadists, saying he was not guilty, the justice ministry said. Tunisian Imed ben Salah, also known as Abou Abdallah Ettounsi, was arrested on March 21 and ordered out of Egypt, according to press reports, for organising the falsification of documents to help jihadists travel to combat zones. "The prosecutor freed Imed ben Salah, in the absence of a crime being committed," ministry front man Adel Riahi told AFP, adding that he was freed late on Thursday. When Ben Salah arrived at Tunis airport earlier on Thursday, he was arrested amid a tight security presence after radical Islamist websites called for a big turnout to welcome him. Police manned checkpoints around the airport to keep Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... away from the building, an AFP photographer reported, and armed police with dogs patrolled the arrivals hall. |
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