This Dec 17, 2022 file photo shows Tunisian President Kais Saied right speaking after voting with his wife Ichraf Chebil at a polling station in the Ennasr district near Tunis during the parliamentary election. The state of emergency imposed in the country will be extended to Tunisia until the end of 2023. PHOTO AFP TUNIS Tunisian President Kais Saied decided on Tuesday to extend the state of emergency imposed across the country until the end of 2023.
The state of emergency in the entire territory will be extended from Tuesday to December 31, 2023, according to the Journal of the Republic of Tunisia, an official biweekly gazette.
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The emergency law of Tunisia allows the authorities to exercise exceptional powers such as carrying out home arrests, banning official meetings, imposing curfews, monitoring media and press, prohibiting assemblies, and imposing media censorship without permission from the judiciary.
It was considered one of the longest extensions since the state of emergency was declared in Tunisia on November 24, 2015 following a bomb attack on a bus carrying presidential guards, killing 12 of them.