By Houda Mzioudet.
Tunis, 24 June 2015:
The Tunisian Court of First Instance has charged two Egyptians held in Libya with the kidnapping and . . .[restrict]murder of Tunisian journalists Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Gtari who disappeared in Libya in September last year.
Until now the Tunisian authorities have refused to accept that the two are dead despite a judge’s statement that he believed they had been killed after he interrogated the two, detained in Beida.
According to the court’s spokesman, Sofiane Selliti, the international arrest warrant against the two Egyptians was issued by the same investigative judge who interviewed them at the beginning of last month and steps were in being taken to obtain their extradition to Tunisia.
Judicial sources meanwhile say that DNA samples have been taken from two bodies recently found in Libya for comparison with those of members of the journalists’ families. [/restrict]
