A Tunisian court released government critic and former presidential hopeful Safi Said from custody Thursday after he was arrested for crossing into Algeria “illegally”, Tunisian media reported. Said, 70, a vocal opponent of Tunisian President Kais Saied, had planned to challenge the incumbent in an 6 October election but has dropped out, calling it a “bad farce”. In a statement posted on social media on 9 August, he complained about “inequality of opportunity, high obstacles and a lack of clarity in the rules” for would-be candidates. Earlier in June, he was sentenced to four months in prison …