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Tunisian President Kais Saied has dismissed 57 judges after he accused them of corruption and protecting “terrorists”, thereby seeking to remodel the country’s political system after consolidating one-man rule.
In a state broadcast, the President claimed he had “given opportunity after opportunity and warning after warning to the judiciary to purify itself”. Hours later, the official gazette published a decree announcing the dismissals.
Among those sacked was Youssef Bouzaker, the former head of the Supreme Judicial Council, which Saied dissolved in February.
The council had acted as the main guarantor of judicial independence since Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and the move fuelled accusations that Saied was interfering in the judicial process.
