The International Solidarity Committee with Rached Ghannouchi reduces the “repressive campaign” against Ennahdha Party Leaders.
Marking the second anniversary of the arrest of a reputable tunis leader Rached GhannouchiThe international committee was founded last year to raise awareness of his prison, say that he is held “unfair” and on “trumpet costs”.
The International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi called on the immediate liberation of the closed leader of the party of Ennahdha and the former president of the Tunisian Parliament.
In Statement on Thursday, it was said that more than 15 cases have led to Ghanouchi, and “several unfinished verdicts and sentences”.
The last of them was a 22-year prison punishment Issued in February under the accusations involved in drawing on state security – the case “in which he has no connection,” the Committee said.
Earlier this year, Ghannouchi was also sentenced to three years to accuse his party to get foreign contributions.
The 83-year-old, which is the main rivalry of the Tunisian President Kais Saayed, was arrested in April 2023. years and sentenced to one year in prison at the incentive.
He was a vocal critic summarized and became the highest digit that was arrested in the continuous consolidation of the president’s power, which was elected in 2019. years, and supervises the wave of repression and legal reforms that expanded its rule.
“These unjust trials and penalties are held in the context of a wide repressive campaign, which leads to the CAIS Sayed regime, which target opposition voices from all taxes, suppressing organized action in all its forms, controls the media and civil society and floss.
They said that the Sanja government must “use the judiciary as a means of resolving political results.”
‘Era of political prisoners’
The Committee’s statement comes in just days after Human Right Watch (HRV) called on the Tunisian government to stop his refusal of the opposition and release all detained.
The law Group announced that arbitrary detention was used to remove disagreement in Tunisia in the middle of the trial of prominent opposition data – including Ghannouchi – Conspiracy charges.
In a report released on Wednesday, HRV strengthened the concern of opposition leaders for what they call the authoritarian rule of the summary since it was dissolved by parliament in 2021. years and began to judge the decree.
The opposition described a Saided move as a coup. He denied such allegations, a professional to become a dictator, but trying to save the North African country from political chaos and work corruption.
The report said Tunisia turned an arbitrary detention in the cornerstone of repressive politics.
“Saayed’s government returned the country of the EUR political prisoners, robbing Tunisia on hard-won civil liberties,” said Bassam Khavaja, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa on HRV.
From 2023. The authorities arrested dozens of prominent political opposition data, as well as journalists, activists and lawyers in critics criticizing that it undermined democracy acquired in Arab spring popularity in 2011. Years.
