TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence Friday against Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda Movement, in the case known as “Lobbying,” according to the Tunisian state news agency. A court sentenced Ghannouchi to three years on Feb. 1 on accusations of receiving foreign funding for ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the country’s 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings, and to demand the release of jailed opposition leaders. They marched down the central thoroughfare of the capital Tunis waving the national flag, commemorating the day wh...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP The jailed leader of Tunisian opposition party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, 82, began a hunger strike on Friday to protest his detention and express support for other “political prisoners”, his party said. A court in the North African country sentenced Ghannouchi to one year in prison on terrorism-related...
