Tunisian authorities arrested Muezzin for promoting books

Tunisian National Guard Agents managed to arrest Muezzin of a mosque in Zahraa district over accusations of distributing books and publications promoting extremist ideas.

The measure came upon a complaint submitted by the mosque’s imam against the Muezzin and his father of attacking him. According to sources, the books promoted by the Muezzin promote extremist ideas adopted by ISIS and other terrorist groups, as they incite violence and support the people for joining the extremist groups.

National Guard Research and Inspection Division in Qasreen arrested also two persons for printing books promoting extremist ideas and providing them to the students of secondary institutes. They acknowledged, during the investigations conducted with them by the Tunisian authorities, that they wrote the books, as they quoted their contents from the writings of an extremist sheikh on the internet.

It is not the first time for the Tunisian authorities to confiscate books promoted in outlawed ways, as the National Chamber of Children’s Nurseries warned of the books taught to children in the kindergartens. The chamber revealed that the Islamic kindergartens turned to teach books promoting extremism among children and inciting hatred.

In the same context, Security sources announced the presence of encrypted communications between terrorists in the prisons of Mornaguia, Manouba and Sfax. Although the General Administration of Prisons and Reform of Ministry of Justice has taken strict security measures in coordination with Interior Ministry to monitor terrorists both during trials and in prison cell rooms or during the movement of terrorists from one prison to another, some prisoners have succeeded in penetrating this security system and have been able to deliver encrypted messages to terrorists in three of largest prison units.

According to the investigations, six families were previously prosecuted for being involved in sending encrypted messages from their terrorist sons imprisoned in prison units to urban and mountain extremists. According to an informed security source, the initial information confirms the involvement of a number of families of terrorists to deliver encrypted messages to their sons in prisons. The sources added that a number of wives of terrorists were behind the process of communication between the extremists of three prisons.