Jilani Lamouchi, a lawyer for “jdd Tunisie” on Tuesday evening, September 21, 2021, said that the investigating judge of the military court issued a prison deposit card against lawyer Seifeddine Makhlouf following a complaint filed against him by a judge in the military court today, said Bassam Tarifi, a lawyer and activist of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in a blog post that the third investigating judge of the Permanent Military Court of Tunisia issued a prison deposit card against the MP and Lawyer Seifeddine Makhlouf in a file just formed on the basis of an immediate report from the assistant military prosecutor after a dialogue between them on the security of the country on the occasion of his accidental presence in court, this was quoted by lawyer Ines Harat.

Clarification of the General Agency for Military Justice

The State General Agency for the Administration of Military Justice explained that Makhlouf, in the military investigation gallery at the permanent military court in Tunis, “attacked and threatened a military judge, informing him that, according to his information from foreign actors, all the names of those involved in the coup, including those participating in military trials, were being monitored . The communication added that, in the sense of the matter as a lawyer, the Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal was informed of the incident, “for the violation and abuse of the judicial facility, in general, and a flagrant threat to military judges, in particular, in the corridors of the Court as they proceeded with their work”. He explained that the Solicitor General authorized the opening of judicial research against him at the Military Registry of Investigation, in accordance with the requirements of the law, and that, in accordance with the requirements of the law, “in the case of confusion, the military investigating judge decided to issue a prison deposit card, given the actions committed by the accused”. Rifi-JDD