US EditionTunisian Court Sentences Opposition Leaders for 'Plotting Against the State'
TUNISIA, JUL 8 – The sentences target opposition figures accused of terrorism and conspiracy, marking a continuation of President Kais Saied's crackdown that began in 2021, critics say it suppresses dissent.
- On July 8, 2025, a Tunisian court sentenced Rached Ghannouchi and 20 other politicians to prison terms for plotting against the state in Tunis.
- The sentences follow a broader crackdown by President Kais Saied since his 2021 power assumption, which critics call a coup and political repression.
- Ghannouchi, 86, leader of the Islamist Ennahdha party that rose after the 2011 Arab Spring revolution, received 14 years, while others got 12 to 35 years.
- His defense team accused the judiciary of unfair trials based on a secret witness with baseless, withdrawn allegations, labeling the process as judicial harassment.
- The ruling suggests continued political suppression amid warnings that Tunisia's democratic gains since 2011 are being reversed under Saied's administration.
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With the recent prison sentences handed down against the lawyer and columnist Sonia Dahmani, her sister Ramla, as well as some 20 prominent figures from the Islamist party Ennahdha, the lawyers of the political opponents awaiting trial are concerned.
On Tuesday in Tunis, a collective trial sentenced some 20 people, including the leader of the Islamist party, who should end his days in prison. ...
In Tunisia, a court sentenced opposition leader Ghannouchi and other politicians to long prison terms.
Tunisia sentences prominent opposition leader to 14 years in prison
“All accusations were based on a false and contradictory testimony by a secret, anonymous witness who failed to present any evidence for his baseless and contradictory allegations, and who ultimately retracted most of them,”
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