{"id":58328,"date":"2022-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/08\/25\/tunisian-fromer-minister-lives-in-airport-in-protest-of-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"tunisian-fromer-minister-lives-in-airport-in-protest-of-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/08\/25\/tunisian-fromer-minister-lives-in-airport-in-protest-of-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian fromer minister lives in airport in protest of travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNoureddin Khadmi (Khademi), a minister in Tunisia&#39;s now-dismissed government, has decided to reside with his family in Tunis&#39; airport in protest of an &quot;illegal&quot; travel ban placed on him.<\/p>\n<p>On 19 August, the former minister of Tunisia&#39;s religious affairs shared a picture of him sleeping in the airport&#39;s waiting seats and announced an open protest after he was denied travel for the seventh time in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisian authorities stormed the airport on Monday and tried to remove the former minister and his family from Carthage international airport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The airport security units asked me to go to the airport governorate headquarters (the police station), so I asked them for a judicial decision to prevent me from travelling. They told me that the issue was related to an issue other than the travel ban decision, given that only a passenger or accompanying traveller remained in the airport space,&quot; Khadmi told The New Arab&#39;s sister publication, Al Araby Al Jadeed.<\/p>\n<p>Khadmi added that his stay at the airport is &quot;a civilised protest&quot; that &quot;does not cause any disturbance to the travellers and security.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"373\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkhadminoureddine%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0U6KRxaygRnAnJ6Lqzxvjv1h2tua3pXG3PzRNNtzZJULJnMyKGowbBKGc3zK4faWbl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am waiting for the first trip to travel and to be authorised to travel, especially since there is no decision to prevent me from doing so,&quot; added the former minister. In response, Tunisia&#39;s interior ministry said there&#39;s a legal travel ban against Khadmi. Khadmi argued that he had never received any official paper citing the claimed ban.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, members of the Ennahda party, one of the leading critics of President Saied, paid a solidarity visit to Khadmi at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The ban in question is related to the S-lists procedure, namely S17, which restricts Tunisians from leaving the country. The lists are numbered 20 and came into force after the S-listing law passed in 2013 to increase border security amid a mounting wave of terrorist attacks on Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-terrorism law was declared illegal by Tunisia&#8217;s administrative court in 2018 since it restricted the constitutional right of movement of hundreds of thousands of Tunisians. However, the ministry of interior has continued to apply the S-listing.<\/p>\n<p>Since President Saied&#8217;s power grab last year, the S-Lists have become the state&#8217;s main tool to restrict opponents&#8217; movements.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Amal Al-Saidi, a member of Tunisia&#8217;s dissolved parliament, was banned from renewing her passport. She was informed that her name figures in the S-lists.<\/p>\n<p>The travel ban against anti-Saied figures invokes similarities with the Ben Ali era when opponents were subjected to different forms of &#8220;legal harassment&#8221; to restrict their movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Saied&#8217;s power grab last year, the S-Lists have become the state&#8217;s repressive tool to control opponents&#8217; movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}