Tunisia has launched a crackdown on mosques and radio stations associated with conservative groups.
Tunisia’s armed forces have been carrying out a campaign to flush out fighters from their remote hideout in the Chaambi mountains on the border with Algeria.
Some of the armed groups are tied to al-Qaeda and 14 soldiers were killed this week when dozens of fighters with rocket-propelled grenades attacked two army checkpoints in the region.
“The prime minister has decided to close immediately all the mosques that are not under the control of the authorities, and those mosques where there were reported celebrations over the deaths of the soldiers,” the office of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said in a statement.
It said the government would also order the closure of radio stations, websites or television stations that publish messages from armed groups. More than 60 men linked to fighters had also been arrested since the attacks on the army checkpoints, the statement said…
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