Tunisia ex-speaker in court again over alleged militant links

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The speaker of Tunisia's dissolved parliament appeared on Monday before a judge investigating accusations his party helped Tunisian militants travel to fight in Iraq and Syria. Rached Ghannouchi, an arch-rival of President Kais Saied and also head of the Ennahdha party, arrived in the morning at the anti-terror court in a suburb of the capital Tunis, said one of his lawyers, Mokhtar Jemai. After Tunisia's 2011 revolt, thousands of Tunisians joined militant groups in neighbouring Libya as well as the Daesh group in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. Rivals of Ennahdha accuse the party of helping them leave.