Analysis
Tunisia: Rached Ghannouchi, president of the Ennahdha party, sentenced to three years in prison
The information fell this Thursday, February 1 at the end of the day. This conviction, the latest twist in a real legal drama, comes ten months after his spectacular arrest at his home.
The leader of the Tunisian Ennahdha movement Rached Ghannouchi, February 21, 2023 in Tunis. AFP - FETHI BELAID
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With our correspondent in Tunis,
Amira Souilem
This sentence is in addition to that of fifteen months that Rached Ghannouchi
is currently serving
for comments made in public during a funeral and inciting violence, according to Tunisian justice. The detention of the man who was president of the Tunisian Assembly – until Kaïs Saïed took full powers – therefore continues.
In the crosshairs of power, Rached Ghannouchi is being prosecuted in several cases, including the deemed illegal financing of his party with funds from abroad.
As soon as the sentence was handed down, his party rejected the accusations outright. This political group had its hour of glory after the revolution, but seems to be in clinical death since President Saïed took control of the country.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafik Abdesselam, member of Ennahdha and son-in-law of Rached Ghannouchi, received the same sentence. In addition to the major figures of the party, it is also the coffers of the movement which are now weakened, Ennahdha having to pay a sum amounting to one million euros as part of this conviction.
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