Tunisian courts will suspend operations for two days following President Kais Saied’s dissolution of the Supreme Judicial Council, a body tasked with ensuring judicial independence. The Association of Tunisian Judges called on all courts in the country to go on strike on Wednesday and Thursday in response to Saied’s move, calling it a “flagrant violation of the independence of the judiciary by the President of the Republic”. The association said that by dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council, Saied had abolished “the last guarantee of the separation of powers and the preservation of the balan…