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A prominent Tunisian journalist and outspoken critic of President Kais Saied was placed in police custody Friday over “insulting others” on social media, his lawyer told AFP. Mohamed Boughalleb, a Tunisian television figure, was summoned and interrogated by a cybercrime unit in the suburbs of the capital Tunis following a complaint filed by a civil servant, lawyer Hamadi Zaafrani said. “After hours of hearing, it was decided to place him in police custody for 48 hours,” he added. The complainant, a woman working in the Tunisian ministry of religious affairs, accused Boughalleb of “damaging her…