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Masked Tunisian police arrest prominent lawyer for media comments
7 months, 1 week ago

Masked Tunisian police arrest prominent lawyer for media comments

Al Jazeera  

Masked police are filmed storming the premises of the Bar Association’s Lawyers’ House to arrest lawyer Sonia Dahmani. The AFP reported that many viewers found Dahmani’s comment “degrading” to Tunisia’s image and a summons to appear before an investigating judge was issued. Dahmani was on the same show two weeks ago, delivering an impassioned broadside to the government and President …

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International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi
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 …

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Tunisian opposition leader Chaima Issa gets suspended jail term
1 year ago

Tunisian opposition leader Chaima Issa gets suspended jail term

Al Jazeera  

A prominent Tunisian opposition activist has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence for insulting the president, her lawyer says. Issa, a member of the National Salvation Front coalition, said after a court hearing on Tuesday that Saied’s opponents were being treated like “criminals”. We are politicians, opponents of the coup of July 25, 2021.” ‘Opinion trials must end’ Rights …

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Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents turn to the International Criminal Court seeking justice
1 year, 2 months ago

Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents turn to the International Criminal Court seeking justice

Associated Press  

TUNIS, Tunisia — Family members of seven imprisoned Tunisian opposition figures took their quest for justice on Thursday to the International Criminal Court, announcing plans to ask the tribunal to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations by President Kais Saied’s administration. However, Saied’s government has cracked down on opponents and jailed dissidents, including opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi …

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Tunisian police arrest two top officials in Ennahda opposition party
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 …

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Prominent radio journalist Zied el-Heni arrested in Tunisia
1 year, 6 months ago

Prominent radio journalist Zied el-Heni arrested in Tunisia

Al Jazeera  

El-Heni is a well-known media figure in Tunisia and has been vocal about his opposition to President Kais Saied. Prominent Tunisian journalist Zied el-Heni has been arrested by an internal squad in plain clothes who stormed his home in a suburb of the capital Tunis, according to local media, amid an ongoing crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied. The …

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

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Tunisian Islamist leader Ghannouchi detained amid tensions
1 year, 8 months ago

Tunisian Islamist leader Ghannouchi detained amid tensions

Associated Press  

TUNIS, Tunisia — Influential Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi was detained Monday after a police search, according to his lawyer, in a move denounced by his supporters as a stepped-up effort by the president to quash Tunisia’s opposition. Other Tunisian media reported that Ghannouchi was to be questioned over a video circulating online in which he purportedly says that the …

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Tunisian president names ally as new interior minister
1 year, 9 months ago

Tunisian president names ally as new interior minister

Al Jazeera  

Former Tunis governor Kamal Feki was given the post, days after mass opposition protests took place in the country. Tunisian President Kais Saied has named Kamal Feki as his new interior minister, hours after Taoufik Charfeddine resigned from the post amid a crackdown on prominent opposition figures. Saied issued two decrees on Friday, the first removing Charfeddine and a second …

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Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine resigns
1 year, 9 months ago

Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine resigns

Al Jazeera  

Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, has appeared less frequently in public in recent months. Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine says he has resigned due to family reasons as the government cracks down on prominent opposition figures and a campaign against sub-Saharan Africans provokes international ire. Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, told reporters on Friday …

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Tunisian opposition defies protest ban, rallies against president
1 year, 9 months ago

Tunisian opposition defies protest ban, rallies against president

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of opposition supporters march through the streets to demand that President Kais Saied step down. Hundreds of opposition supporters in Tunisia have defied a protest ban and demanded the release of more than 20 prominent figures opposed to the president who have been arrested in recent weeks. The National Salvation Front coalition combines Tunisia’s biggest party, the Ennahdha, the …

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Tunisia judge imprisons politicians, businessman amid crackdown
1 year, 9 months ago

Tunisia judge imprisons politicians, businessman amid crackdown

Al Jazeera  

A wave of raids and arrests has targeted opposition figures and government critics recently. All three were arrested amid a security crackdown that has seen a series of raids and arrests of opposition politicians, activists, protest organisers, a media figure, judges and an influential business leader. The 12 people arrested as of Saturday include Chaima Aissa and Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, …

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Tunisian Islamist leader arrested in crackdown on opposition
1 year, 10 months ago

Tunisian Islamist leader arrested in crackdown on opposition

Associated Press  

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian authorities arrested the leader of the Ennahda opposition Islamist movement in a crackdown on rival politicians and critics of the North African country’s increasingly authoritarian president Kais Saied, lawyers said Tuesday. Noureddine Bhiri, a senior Ennahda leader, was taken into custody by armed police at his home in the capital, Tunis, late Monday on suspicion of …

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Tunisian police detain prominent politicians, businessman
1 year, 10 months ago

Tunisian police detain prominent politicians, businessman

Al Jazeera  

Eltaief, once a confidant of former President Ben Ali, and two key political activists were detained. Tunisian police have arrested influential businessman Kamel Eltaief, once a confidant of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as well as two key political activists, lawyers say. The influential power broker was involved in the 1987 coup that forced former President Habib Bourguiba …

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