Tunisia Police Arrest Three Prominent Officials of Ennahda Party
Tunisian police arrested three prominent officials of the main opposition Ennahda party on Tuesday, hours after they detained party leader Rached Ghannouchi.
Lawyer Monia Bouali told our reporters that the officials arrested are Mohamed Goumani, Belkacem Hassan and Mohammed Chnaiba. Officials in Ennahda confirmed the arrests.
Police raided Ennahda party headquarters early on Tuesday and evacuated all present to start a search that will take days, after showing a judicial warrant, party officials said.
Police have this year detained leading political figures who accuse Saied of what they call a coup after closing the elected parliament in 2021 and his move to rule by decree before rewriting the constitution.
The earlier arrests, that have led to charges of conspiring against state security.
An interior ministry official said Ghannouchi had been brought in for questioning and his house searched on the orders of the public prosecutor investigating “inciting statements”.
Ghannouchi said on Saturday, “Tunisia without Ennahda, without political Islam, without the left, or any other component, is a project for civil war”.
