Rached Ghannouchi

Earlier in March young activists under middle-aged Brother Ibrahim el Zaafarani had launched an online campaign for a ‘Renaissance Party’ just like Rachid Ghannouchi’s En Nahda in Tunisia...

Also attending was Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi veteran Sudan passport-holder who claims affinity with Turkey’s ruling party which arrived in force...

Rachid Ghannouchi returns In exile in London since 1989 when negotiations to bring his Islamist party into the political system failed Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) leader Rachid Ghannouchi faces a very different political arena from the 1990s...

Like Islamist parties elsewhere Rachid Ghannouchi sees that as his support base and we hear wants his return to Tunis to be spectacular...

Rachid Ghannouchi says this is what Ennahda now stands for...

During the same period GSPC cells reportedly supported an attack on police units in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has controlled Islamists with a rod of iron since his 1989 crackdown on Rachid Ghannouchi's Ennahda (Renaissance) movement...

Exiled Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi's Ennahda (Renaissance) movement celebrated its 25th anniversary last June in London – and there is no likelihood of a return home soon...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ben Yahia has been in London to promote Tunisian claims and to remind Britain that Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi lives in the UK...

The signatories as well as Egyptian and Palestinian Islamist leaders included Tunisia's Rachid Ghannouchi and Algeria's ex-Premier Abdelhamid Brahimi (both living in Britain)...

However Ben Ali was still bristling after the warm press reception accorded to Tunisian Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi who had applauded Bouteflika's ouverture to the FIS...

NGOs consistently condemn the gaoling of thousands of members and sympathisers of Rachid Ghannouchi's banned Islamist Hizb Ennahda and also of leftists and human rights activists...

Like Algeria Tunisia will not allow parties based on ethnicity region or religion blocking the emergence of Islamist parties to take up the mantle of Rachid Ghannouchi's banned Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party)...