On February 21, 2023, Ennahdha leader Rached Ghannouchi arrives at a Tunis police station.
Rached Ghannouchi’s daughter, Yusra, has denounced her father’s imprisonment, calling President Kais Saied’s regime a human rights violator.
She is petitioning the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for her family’s urgent release.
“Tunisia follows the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights. We have also sought targeted sanctions on Kais Saied, his justice minister, interior minister, and defence minister, as well as his accomplices in human rights abuses “Yusra Ghannouch.
After threatening a “civil war” if left-wing or political Islam parties like Ennahdha were abolished, Ghannouchi, 81, was imprisoned on April 17.
“My father, our fathers, and other political leaders and civil society activists are imprisoned because they oppose this coup and the return of dictatorship. We will not be silent, nor will they “Yusra Ghannouch.
Since early February, the international world and rights groups have decried the detention of over 20 political opponents and others.
The impacted parties have reported the harassment to the lawyers representing the victims and the mistreatment of the detainees.
“Threatened and charged are detainee lawyers. Several captives were mistreated until today. One claim, torture, would be brought to the African court “Rodney Dixon, counsel for families of incarcerated Tunisian opposition activists, told his clients.
President Saied called those apprehended “terrorists” who conspired against state security.
Saied led his country into hyper-presidential by shredding the semi-parliamentary Constitution of 2014.
