He also claims support from backers of Ennahda the Islamist party whose leader Rached Ghannouchi was jailed in February (Dispatches 16/7/24 Saïed clears the field of challengers)...
Ennahda's leader Rached Ghannouchi already serving a year's sentence with a fine of nearly $1...
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Ennahda's leader Rached Ghannouchi and Free Destourian Party President Abir Moussi are also among those in prison...
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The ruling by the African Union's Arusha-based court is in response to a case brought by Rodney Dixon KC the former prosecutor for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who is representing a group of Tunisian politicians including Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi...
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After the journalists alongside veteran Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi were convicted the authorities came for their lawyers...
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President Kaïs Saïed is stepping up his crackdown on opposition politicians following the arrest and detention of Rachid Ghannouchi leader of the Islamist Ennahda party...
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Rached Ghannouchi the Parliament Speaker and President of the Islamist Ennahda party appeared before the investigating judge at the anti-terrorism unit of the Tunis court on 21 February to face charges of incitement...
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Ennahda said that its 81-year-old party leader Rachid Ghannouchi had been kept in custody for interrogation for more than 14 hours on what they described as 'fabricated' terrorism charges...
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The political stand-off in Tunisia intensified on 1 April after the anti-terrorism police summoned Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi who was accused by President Kaïs Saïed of conspiring against state security...
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At an online meeting on 27 January with members of parliament which has been suspended since last July Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi struck a defiant posture against President Kaïs Saïed's attempt to rule by fiat and rewrite the constitution...
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