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Tunisian anti-terrorism unit arrests Al Jazeera reporter

Tunisian anti-terrorism unit arrests Al Jazeera reporter

A Tunisian anti-terrorism unit arrested Al Jazeera reporter Samir Sassi, the Tunisian journalists' union said. The unit has searched his home and seized his computer and phone, as well as those of his family members, the union said in a statement on Thursday. The union denounced the arrest as "arbitrary" and alluded to the possibility of Sassi being investigated for a suspected terrorism charge since his lawyer is not allowed to talk to him for 48 hours. Al Jazeera's Tunis bureau chief, Lotfi Hajji, said on his Facebook account that security forces did not tell Sassi's family why he was…
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