Tunisia’s opposition Islamist celebration Ennahdha stated that one in all its senior officers has been positioned below home arrest by authorities in what it referred to as an unlawful resolution.
Ennahdha condemned in a press release Sunday the sanction in opposition to Abdel Karim Harouni and referred to as for him to be launched.
The Nationwide Salvation Entrance, Tunisia’s important opposition coalition which incorporates Ennahdha, stated in a press release that Harouni had been positioned below home arrest from Saturday night, sooner or later earlier than he was to participate in a gathering to organize the celebration’s congress scheduled in October.
The opposition coalition denounced an “arbitrary resolution” that comes “within the context of the arrest of the historic leaders of the Ennahdha celebration, the closure of all its headquarters, and threats to its leaders and activists.”
The Nationwide Salvation Entrance stated it “considers this new step to be a part of the collection of steady measures attacking democracy and freedoms in Tunisia.”
The transfer comes after Tunisian Islamist chief Rached Ghannouchi was arrested earlier this 12 months and sentenced to a 12 months in jail for allegedly referring to law enforcement officials as tyrants in what his celebration stated amounted to a sham trial.
Ghannouchi, 82, founding father of the Ennahdha celebration and a former speaker of parliament, is essentially the most distinguished critic of Tunisian President Kais Saied. He has maintained that Saied’s transfer in 2021 to take all powers into his palms amounted to a coup.
Saied shut down the Ennahdha-led parliament in 2021 and has since moved to consolidate energy amid rising public disillusionment with Tunisia’s democracy.
Police have detained a number of different opposition figures this 12 months.
The crackdown on opponents comes amid rising social tensions and deepening financial troubles in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring pro-democracy motion greater than a decade in the past.