Ennahda calls on supporters to protest at Ministry of Justice

Ali Laarayedh, Deputy Chairman of the Ennahda Movement and former Prime Minister of Tunisia holds press conference on the investigation of the Ennahda Movement Leader Rachid al-Ghannouchi in Tunis, Tunisia on September 26, 2022. [Yassine Gaidi – Anadolu Agency]

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement yesterday called on its supporters to protest outside the Ministry of Justice headquarters in the capital today “in solidarity with former Prime Minister and Vice President of the Ennahda Movement, Ali Laarayedh, and his family, and to demand his release and halt political trials.”

Laarayedh was put in pre-trial detention in September. He has been held on charges in the case of “sending Tunisians to areas of tension.”

Probes into the case of “sending Tunisians to areas of tension” were initiated after a former MP Fatima Al-Masdi of the Nidaa Tounes movement submitted a complaint in December 2021 to the military judiciary, before transferring it to the anti-terrorism judiciary.

Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi is among a number of officials being questioned in the case.

Tunisia: Authorities arrest Ennahda leaders on charges of money laundering

Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.