The International Solidarity Committee with Rached Ghannouchi decreases the ‘repressive campaign’ against the Ennahdha party leader.
Marking the second anniversary of the sentence of the outstanding leader of the opposition of Tunisia, Rached Ghannouchi, an international committee formed last year to raise awareness about his imprisonment, says he is an “unjustly” hero and “surpassed charges.”
The International Solidarity Committee with Reched Ghannouchi requested the immediate release of the imprisoned leader of the Ennahdha party and former president of the Tunisian Parliament.
In a statement on Thursday, he said that more than 15 cases have appeared against Ghannouchi, and “several unjust sentences and sentences” have a bone problem.
The most recent of these was a 22 -year prison sentence issued in February for positions that included conspiring against state security, a case “for whom it has no connection,” said the committee.
Earlier this year, Ghannouchi was also sentenced to three years for accusations that his party appealed to foreign contributions.
The 83 -year -old man, who has been the main rival of Tunisian President Kais Saied, was arrested in April 2023 and sentenced to a year in prison for charges of incitement.
He has been a vocal critic of Saed, and became the highest profile figure to be arrested in the continuous consolidation of power by the president who was elected in 2019 and has a wave of repression and legal reforms that have expanded his governance.
“These unjust evidence and sentences take place within the context of a broad repressive campaign directed by the Kais Saied regime, which is directed to the opposition of all the origins, repressing the organized action action, and Silmen The Media and Civilization the media and civilization committee said in his statement.
He said that Saied’s government has to “exploit the Judiciary as a tool to resolve political scores.”
‘A political era or prisoners’
The Committee’s statement occurs a few days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) based in the United States asked the Tunisian Government to stop their repression of the opposition and release all the stops.
The rights group said that arbitrary detention was used to eliminate in Tunisia in the middle of a trial of prominent opposition figures, including Ghannouchi, in conspiracy charges.
In a report published on Wednesday, HRW reinforced the concern of opposition leaders about what they call the authoritarian rule since Hey dissolved the Parliament in 2021 and failure by decree.
The opposition described Saied’s movement as a coup d’etat. He has denied such accusations, professing that he would not be a dictator, but is trying to rescue the country in North Africa from political chaos and unbridled corruption.
The report says that Tunisia had turned arbitrary detention into a cornerstone of repressive policy.
“The Saied government has returned the country to an era or political prisoners, robbing tunnecinos or civil liberties,” said Bassam Khawaja, deputy director of the Middle East and director of North Africa in HRW.
Since 2023, the authorities have arrested boxes of prominent figures of political opposition, as well as journalists, activists and lawyers in critical repression, they say that it has undermined democracy won in the popular survey of the Arab spring of 2011.