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Tunisian authorities escalate pre-election crackdown and arrest Islamists en masse

TUNIS, Tunisia — Dozens of members of Tunisia’s largest opposition party were arrested this week ahead of the formal start of campaign season for the country’s presidential election, attorneys and officials from the party said Friday. Former Minister of Youth and Sports Ahmed Gaaloul, a member of the party’s executive committee and advisor to its imprisoned leader Rached Ghannouchi, said …

Election Party Process President Tunisia Arrests Tunis

4 months, 1 week ago

A candidate cull ahead of Tunisia’s presidential election

Al Jazeera

Most prospective candidates saw their names ruled out, with some finding themselves in prison. “The Tunisian authorities’ disrespect for human rights and their crackdown against opponents must stop,” rights group Amnesty International said in early July. “It’s not really that he’s worried about losing,” he said about the president, who remains relatively popular within Tunisia, “it’s that neither he nor …

Rights Election President Candidate Tunisian Authorities Saied

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tunisian Opposition figure Abir Moussi sentenced to two years amid crackdown ahead of October election

The Hindu

A potential Presidential candidate in Tunisia has been sentenced to two years in prison, marking another setback to the country’s fledgling Opposition challenging President Kais Saied as he seeks a new term. Ms. Moussi’s lawyer Nafaa Laribi told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she still intends to run in the October 6 Presidential election, and that, unlike other candidates, …

Tunisia Saied Moussi

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tunisian opposition figure Moussi is sentenced to prison amid crackdown ahead of October election

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — A potential presidential candidate in Tunisia has been sentenced to two years in prison, marking another setback to the country’s fledgling opposition challenging President Kais Saied as he seeks a new term. Following a complaint by the North African nation’s election authority, she was found guilty of violating a controversial anti-fake news decree outlawing spreading information that …

Tunisia Moussi

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tunisia's upcoming presidential race marred by candidacy constraints

Hindustan Times

Tunisia has kicked off candidacy submissions for its upcoming presidential election on October 6, amid what experts say are significant constraints on hopefuls challenging incumbent President Kais Saied. Kharrat said many factors are "reducing the credibility" of the upcoming election, referring to the candidacy criteria, the delayed announcement of the election day, and a 2022 law punishing "spreading false news". …

Tunisian Saied Kharrat

5 months ago

Tunisian President Kais Saied to seek reelection in October after tumultuous first term

Associated Press

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said Friday that he will run for a second term, making a long-expected announcement while many of his potential opponents languish in prison on charges their attorneys have described as politicized. Saied, a 66-year-old former law professor, rose to power in 2019, capitalizing on anger against politicians who failed to fulfill the promises of the revolution …

Tunisia Saied

5 months ago

Tunisian presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi barred from contesting elections for life

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced a presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison and banned him from contesting elections for life, in the latest move to stifle opponents of President Kais Saied in the upcoming October election which critics call a sham. Mraihi’s lawyer Omar Ben Ismael told The Associated Press that he planned …

Election President Candidate Tunisia Saied Mraihi

5 months, 1 week ago

Tunisia’s opposition says politically motivated arrests and gag orders are chilling election efforts

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted Wednesday that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year. Leaders of Ennahda and other parties in the Front described recent arrests and limitations on those planning to challenge Saied a “suffocation in terms of freedoms, human rights and basic rights for …

Political Opposition Tunisian Tunisia Arrests Saied

8 months, 1 week ago

International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi

Al Jazeera

Newly formed International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi says the Ennahdha party leader is ‘oldest prisoner of conscience in the Arab world’. Marking the first anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, an international committee has formed to raise awareness of the imprisonment of the 82-year-old, now the “oldest prisoner of conscience in the Arab …

International Political Opposition Committee Tunisian Tunisia Saied Ghannouchi

10 months ago

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi joins group of imprisoned hunger strikers

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi began a hunger strike in prison on Monday, joining other government critics striking to protest what they see as unjust incarceration. Imed Khemiri, the spokesperson for his political party, told The Associated Press on Monday that Ghannouchi’s strike intended to draw attention to the plight of Tunisia’s political prisoners and the violations …

Tunisia Political Prison Critics Striking Ghannouchi Joins

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Tunisian opposition party leader sentenced to 3 years as crackdown on president’s critics continues

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — The head of Tunisia’s largest opposition party was sentenced to three years in prison in the latest display of the North African country’s crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied. As Tunisia’s presidential election approaches later this year, Khemiri said those in power were demonizing political parties and promised Ennahdha would appeal as part of its broader …

Party Tunisia Ennahdha Moussi Ghannouchi

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi sentenced to three years

Al Jazeera

Ghannouchi’s Ennahda Party is accused of receiving foreign funds as President Kais Saied continues crackdown on opposition. A Tunisian court has sentenced opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to three years in prison over accusations that his Ennahda Party received foreign contributions, official news agency Tunis Afrique Press reported, amid an escalating crackdown on dissent in the North African country. “The sentencing …

Opposition Tunisian Three Years Saied Ghannouchi Ennahda

1 year, 3 months ago

2 top officials of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party arrested while its leader languishes in jail

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian officials detained a former prime minister for questioning then freed him hours later early Wednesday, but jailed two top officials in the moderate Islamist Ennahdha party whose leader has been imprisoned, the official news agency said. According to Ennahdha, Ounissi, who is standing in for jailed party leader Rached Ghannouchi, was stopped Tuesday night by security …

Islamist Party Leader Tunisian Tunisia Saied Ennahdha

1 year, 3 months ago

Tunisian police arrest two top officials in Ennahda opposition party

Al Jazeera

Ennahda interim head Mondher Ounissi and Abdel Karim Harouni, leader of the party’s Shura Council, have been arrested. Two top officials in Tunisia’s main opposition Ennahda party have been arrested, the party said, in the latest targeting of opponents of President Kais Saied. The interim head of Ennahda, Mondher Ounissi, was detained by police on Tuesday and, minutes afterwards, so …

Party Tunisian Tunisia Arrest Saied Ghannouchi Ennahda

1 year, 6 months ago

Three Tunisian opposition leaders on hunger strike in prison

Al Jazeera

Three leaders of Tunisia’s opposition Ennahdha party are on hunger strike in protest against their detention and stripping of fundamental rights in what is widely seen as part of a government crackdown against opponents of President Kais Saied. ‘Dangerous policy’ Ennahdha issued a statement on Monday after another of its leaders, Ahmed Mechergui, 54, a former member of parliament and …

Prison Strike Hunger Tunisian Tunisia Hunger Strike Saied

1 year, 6 months ago

Jailed Tunisian opposition leader’s health deteriorating: Wife

Al Jazeera

Sahbi Atig has been hospitalised in intensive care after 25-day hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment. An opposition leader’s health is deteriorating rapidly in a Tunisian jail after an almost monthlong hunger strike, his wife says Sahbi Atig, a member of the Shura Council for the moderate opposition Ennahdha party, was arrested on May 6 after security forces prevented …

Tunisia Opposition Ennahdha Atig

1 year, 7 months ago

Tunisia’s moderate Islamist leader sentenced in absentia to year in prison

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — A court has sentenced moderate Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year in prison for allegedly referring to police officers as tyrants in what his party said Tuesday amounted to a sham trial. Ghannouchi, 81, founder of the Ennahdha party, has refused to be removed from his place of detention for questioning or to attend Monday’s …

Party His Party Tunisia Ghannouchi

1 year, 7 months ago

Who are some of the key opposition figures targeted in Tunisia?

Al Jazeera

Thirty opposition figures deemed critical of President Kais Saied have been arrested in recent months, according to Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the arrests of Ennahdha members, warning that the government was “moving to neutralize the country’s largest political party”. Seventeen current or former Ennahdha members have been arrested since December, bringing the total number of …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Fears Ghannouchi arrest will lead to more crackdowns in Tunisia

Al Jazeera

Opposition worried what President Kais Saied’s next step will be with a number of opposition figures in prison. “They insisted that he can be held for 48 hours without lawyers present,” Yusra Ghannouchi said, detailing her father’s initial interrogation on Monday. “My father stated that one of the main successes of the National Salvation Front is to go beyond political …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Judge orders Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi jailed

Al Jazeera

A judge has ordered Rached Ghannouchi, Tunisia’s main opposition leader, jailed ahead of his trial on charges of plotting against state security, days after he was arrested at his home in Tunis. Ghannouchi said in an opposition meeting last week that “Tunisia without Ennahda, without political Islam, without the left or any other component is a project for civil war.” …

Party Judge State Tunisian Tunisia Ghannouchi Ennahda

1 year, 8 months ago

Arrests of Tunisia opposition leaders draw global condemnation

Al Jazeera

The US says the arrests ‘represent a troubling escalation by the Tunisian government against perceived opponents’. In a statement on Wednesday, the US government said the arrest on Monday of former Speaker of Parliament Ghannouchi and the closure of the Ennahdha party headquarters “are fundamentally at odds with the principles Tunisians adopted in a constitution,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant …

State Tunisian Tunisia Saied Ghannouchi

1 year, 8 months ago

Who is Ghannouchi, the Ennahdha party leader arrested in Tunisia?

Al Jazeera

Rached Ghannouchi is the highest-profile figure to be arrested in Tunisia as President Saied tightens his grip on power. A Tunisian judge has ordered the imprisonment pending trial of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party and an ardent critic of President Kais Saied, on charges of incitement against state authorities. Ennahdha, a self-styled “Muslim democrat” party with …

Political University Islam Party Leader Tunisian Tunisia

1 year, 8 months ago

Tunisian authorities close opposition Ennahdha party HQ

Al Jazeera

The move comes a day after party leader Ghannouchi was arrested as part of a continuing crackdown on Tunisia’s opposition. Tunisian authorities have closed the headquarters of the opposition Ennahdha party, a day after leader Rached Ghannouchi was arrested, party officials have said. Ennahdha, a self-styled “Muslim Democrat” party, was the largest in Tunisia’s parliament before President Kais Saied dissolved …

Political Party Tunisian Tunisia Late Tunisian Authorities Saied

1 year, 8 months ago

Tunisian police detain opposition leader, raid Ennahda party HQ

Al Jazeera

Rached Ghannouchi has emerged as one of the biggest critics of President Kais Saied since the leader shut down parliament. Tunisian police have detained opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi and raided the headquarters of his Ennahda party, party officials said. Police raided Ghannouchi’s house on Monday evening, carrying out a search before taking him to what party officials called an “unknown …

Tunisian Tunisia Detain Ghannouchi Ennahda

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Tunisian authorities escalate pre-election crackdown and arrest Islamists en masse

A candidate cull ahead of Tunisia’s presidential election

Tunisian Opposition figure Abir Moussi sentenced to two years amid crackdown ahead of October election

Tunisian opposition figure Moussi is sentenced to prison amid crackdown ahead of October election

Tunisia's upcoming presidential race marred by candidacy constraints

Tunisian President Kais Saied to seek reelection in October after tumultuous first term

Tunisian presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi barred from contesting elections for life

Tunisia’s opposition says politically motivated arrests and gag orders are chilling election efforts

International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi joins group of imprisoned hunger strikers

Tunisian opposition party leader sentenced to 3 years as crackdown on president’s critics continues

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi sentenced to three years

2 top officials of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party arrested while its leader languishes in jail

Tunisian police arrest two top officials in Ennahda opposition party

Three Tunisian opposition leaders on hunger strike in prison

Jailed Tunisian opposition leader’s health deteriorating: Wife

Tunisia’s moderate Islamist leader sentenced in absentia to year in prison

Who are some of the key opposition figures targeted in Tunisia?

Fears Ghannouchi arrest will lead to more crackdowns in Tunisia

Judge orders Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi jailed

Arrests of Tunisia opposition leaders draw global condemnation

Who is Ghannouchi, the Ennahdha party leader arrested in Tunisia?

Tunisian authorities close opposition Ennahdha party HQ

Tunisian police detain opposition leader, raid Ennahda party HQ