Tunisia is moving towards eradicating everyone who opposed the president. The sentencing of Rashid Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahdha movement and speaker of the dissolved parliament, to effective imprisonment was described as an unjust political decision.
The security authorities launched a massive campaign to arrest a number of opposition figures. The opposition National Salvation Front called on its supporters to demonstrate on Friday in the capital to demand the release of political detainees and an end to what it considered “unfair trials”