أحكام السجن لمدد تُقدر بعقود بحق زعيم حركة النهضة في تونس راشد الغنوشي

Tunisian court sentences opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to decades in prison on charges stemming from a 2021 political speech. | Contesto: cronaca

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• أحكام السجن لمدد تُقدر بعقود بحق زعيم حركة النهضة في تونس راشد الغنوشي

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A Tunisian court has handed down a cumulative prison sentence of several decades to Rached Ghannouchi, the 82-year-old intellectual leader of the Ennahda movement and a pivotal figure in the country's post-revolution politics. The verdict, delivered on Tuesday, relates to a case built around a speech Ghannouchi gave at an opposition-organized symposium during the holy month of Ramadan three years ago. In that address, he warned of what he termed the dangers of "political exclusion" by the authorities. The sentencing marks one of the most severe judicial actions taken against a political leader since President Kais Saied began consolidating power in 2021. Ghannouchi, who served as the speaker of Tunisia's dissolved parliament, was convicted on charges that legal observers say are broadly linked to accusations of conspiring against state security. The court's decision to impose such a lengthy cumulative term, effectively a life sentence for the octogenarian, underscores the escalating campaign against organized opposition, particularly targeting Ennahda, which was the largest party in parliament before its dissolution. The case is intrinsically tied to the political climate that followed President Saied's suspension of parliament and subsequent rule by decree. The 2021 symposium, held during Ramadan, was a gathering of various opposition figures critical of Saied's moves. Ghannouchi's commentary on "political exclusion" was framed by the prosecution as a form of incitement. Legal analysts note that the charges reflect a widening use of anti-terrorism and state security legislation to prosecute political speech, a significant shift from Tunisia's earlier post-2011 experiment with pluralistic democracy. Ghannouchi's journey from exiled dissident to political leader and now to convicted prisoner encapsulates Tunisia's turbulent democratic transition. As the co-founder of Ennahda, a mainstream Islamist-inspired party that renounced violence and participated in electoral politics, he was a key architect of the governing coalitions that followed the 2011 Arab Spring revolution. His sentencing is seen not merely as a legal action but as a definitive political message,...

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