Police storm Al Jazeera offices in Tunis
July 27, 2021
TUNIS: The Tunisian police have stormed Al Jazeera’s bureau in the capital Tunis, expelling all the staff, after President Kais Saied late on Sunday ousted the government in a move, his foes called a coup.
At least 20 heavily-armed plain-clothed police officers entered the office on Monday, the Al Jazeera journalists in Tunis reported, saying the officers did not have warrants for the raid. “We did not receive any prior notice of the eviction of our office by the security forces,” Lotfi Hajji, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Tunisia, said.
The security forces involved in the raid said they were carrying out instructions from the country’s judiciary and asked all journalists to leave.