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...
Vol 38 No 14 |
- NORTH AFRICA
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)...
No one expects the RCD to lose its dominant role especially as Rachid Ghannouchi head of the main real opposition Ennahda remains a thorn in Ben Ali's flesh from his exile in Britain...
That was the power-base from which he became Prime Minister then President in 1987 and it was the main instrument he used to crush the Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) the Islamist movement led by Rachid Ghannouchi now exiled in Britain...
Tunis remains deeply concerned at the presence in London of Rachid Ghannouchi ‘emir' of the Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party)...
