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An unidentified Tunisian man has been arrested in South Africa on terrorism suspicions after he travelled to that country using a U.K passport. South African police said they arrested the Tunisian man travelling on a U.K. passport because of a 'terror' alert from International Police (Interpol).
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The man is reported to have been arrested on January 24 when he arrived from London at Johannesburg’s international airport.

South Africa’s Hawks Police Unit spokesperson Musa Zondi said, “He has a heart condition. So he is in hospital, under our guard.”

According to Zondi, the unidentified man had charges against him in Tunisia and that he was in South Africa for a meeting with TV’s Islam Channel.

Calls to London-based Islam Channel Limited’s office were not answered and Lawyers for the man blocked his deportation and plan to challenge his arrest.

Security has been tightened in many African entry and exit points, especially airports, after a 23 year-old Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, wanted to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day in the U.S.