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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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Rachid Ghannouchi leader since Ennahda's clandestine creation in 1981 has outlived his welcome but couldn't resist the temptation to become speaker of a dysfunctional Assemblée des représentants du peuple (ARP – parliament) in November 2019 rather than encourage new blood...
Most divided in its response is the Islamist party Ennahda the largest in the country and headed by the speaker of parliament Rachid Ghannouchi...
Not so said the country's largest party the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Ennahda party led by parliamentary speaker Rachid Ghannouchi 2011 interim President Moncef Marzouki and several other parties including the main opposition party Qalb Tounes the hardline Islamist Karama Alliance and the Workers' Party formerly the Communist Party...
