Baku-APA. Tunisia’s president has extended for two months a nationwide state of emergency following a deadly bomb attack in November 2015, APA reports quoting Press TV.
A government statement said on Tuesday that President Beji Caid Essebsi made the decision after consulting the prime minister and the head of the national assembly.
The statement added that the measure would be extended from July 21 for two months.
The state of emergency empowers the authorities to prohibit strikes and gatherings that might "provoke or maintain disorder." It also permits officials to "take every measure to secure control of the press and all types of publications."
The state of emergency was originally imposed on November 24, 2015, after a bomb attack claimed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group on a bus transporting presidential guards killed a dozen people in the capital, Tunis. Following the attack, President Essebsi said Tunis was at “war against terrorism.”
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