Vice President Ennahdha Biri was arrested by plainclothes police in the capital on Friday.
Complaints abound to know where it is imprisonment Tunisian politician Noureddine Bhiri, leader of the Ennahdha party, the largest parliament in the North African parliament.
Plainclothes police arrested Biri, a former lawmaker and deputy president of Ennahdha, the capital of Tunis on Friday.
The Tunisian Independent Anti-Semitism Commission (INPT) said government officials did not say anything about Bill or Fathi Baldi, a former interior minister who was taken in for questioning on Friday.
INPT president Fathi al-Jarray said there was “no response” from the Interior Ministry on his request to notify the two men.
Ennahdha he played a major role in the country’s politics until President Kais Saied took office in July.
Tunisia was the only democratic country that emerged from the Arab Spring terrorists 10 years ago, but Saied factions and opponents have shown fears of a return to authoritarianism ten years after the terrorists who overthrew the powerful former Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Lawyer and INPT chief Lotfi Ezzedine told AFP that some people had been arrested in the summer, but “this is very bad because we do not know where they are being held”.
Bill and Baldi were “not in prison, in their homes or in the police,” he said, noting where the two were “secret”.
On July 25 last year, Saied dismissal government supported by Ennahdha and suspended parliament, presenting itself as the chief interpreter of the law.
He later took legal action, and, in early December, promised to continue the political process. Opposers have denounced his actions as a coup d’état.
The president has defended his capture as the only way to address government fears after years of political crisis and economic turmoil.
He pledged to uphold the rights and freedoms he won in 2011.
‘Dangerous precedent’
On Friday, Ennahdha said the government was asking for Biri and condemned “the theft and horrific acts that are showing the country entering a brutal road”.
Ezzedine of the INPT said the interior ministry ordered the pair to be jailed without charge because they said they were “at risk in public”.
They have failed to communicate with their families or lawyers or to be visited, he said, calling their arrests “illegal”.
Ennahdha party spokesman Habib Khedher said Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine declined on Saturday to meet with Biri security committee representatives.
He said Biri’s wife Saida Akremi and the country’s lawmaker had requested a meeting with Biri, who is suffering from chronic illness.
Separately, former President Moncef Marzouki accused Tunisian officials on Saturday of harassing his brother.
In late December, a Tunisian court ruled that Marzouki, who opposes President Said’s ouster, had not been sentenced to four years in prison for “violating” state security.
Marzouki denied the verdict as unconstitutional, telling Al Jazeera at the time that it was “issued by an illegal president who violated the law”.
