Tunisia: 'Hannibal Tv' Channel Owner and Son Arrested for 'High Treason' and 'Plot' to Destabilize National Security

24 January 2011

Tunis — In view of the state of emergency and in order to ensure Tunisia's security and the success of the Revolution the country is living through, there is a warrant out against the owner of private Hannibal TV channel and his son until they are brought before courts for "high treason'" and '"plot" to destabilize national security, reported authorized sources.

The owner of "Hannibal TV", Arbi Nasra, who is a relative of the former President's wife, is using the channel to "abort the youth's Revolution, spread confusion, incite strife and broadcast false information likely to create a constitutional vacuum and destabilize the country in order to take it into a spiral of violence that aiming at restoring the dictatorship of the former President " said the same sources.

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