Death threats delay Tunisian constitution vote | Inquirer News

Death threats delay Tunisian constitution vote

/ 07:30 PM January 06, 2014

Parliament members gather, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 at the National assembly in Tunis. AP FILE PHOTO

TUNIS, Tunisia—Tunisia’s constitutional assembly prepares to select a new committee to oversee elections after its work weekend was disrupted by death threats against one of its members.

The assembly plans to select the nine members of a commission Monday to supervise elections in 2014.

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On Sunday, the assembly departed from its schedule to pass a new article making accusations of apostasy a crime after one of its members received death threats.

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Police said left-wing deputy Mongi Rahoui was called by an Islamist member an “enemy of Islam” and later received death threats.

Two leftist assembly members were assassinated by Islamist extremists in 2013.

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The assembly is voting on a constitution to create a new democracy after decades of dictatorship.

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