The Tunisian opposition Annahadha party has sentenced the court to a leader in which Ghanuchi has been sentenced to 22 years in prison, saying that the allegations were “a clear attack on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary and its method. There are a manifest politics of car and decisions.
Annhudha issued a statement on Thursday that the proceedings were influenced by “countless violations” and that the case against Ghanuchi was “nothing but a political trial”.
It further states that they “remind the period that” people tried to overtake through their revolution “President Zain al -Abidin Ben Ali in a popular protest that mobilized the Arab Spring of the 2011 Arab Spring. About Abedin Ben Ali.
Ghanuchi was arrested in April 2023 and sentenced to one year in prison for provoking. The 83 -year -old has been the main rival of President Kais Saeed.
Last week, he was sentenced to three years in prison for allegations that his party had received a foreign contribution. Anitha, who dismissed the allegations, was fined $ 1.1 million.
On Wednesday, a court sentenced him to 22 years in prison on charges, including “plotting against state security”.
Ghanuchi adviser and former Tunisian minister, Ahmed Galol, told Al Jazeera that the party was expecting to hand over even severe punishments in the coming months.
“Saeed needs propaganda tool” during the deep economic crisis, Galol said. “His conversation is that he is bringing back people’s wealth, that he is strong, but he has nothing to do with justice.”
He said that the payments would continue to challenge the proceedings in the international courts. Galol said Galuchi said that despite not receiving medical help while in jail, it is in good shape, he refuses to appear before a judge in Tunisia to protest the absence of an independent judiciary. Has been
Galol said that Saeed’s government has the support of countries that have “security and stability” in Tunisia, which is as its top interest rather than democracy. He told Al Jazeera, “It did not work in the 80s and 90s, and it would not work in this matter.”
Several opposition leaders sentenced
The court on Wednesday also sentenced several other individuals of the Annahdha party, including former Prime Minister Hachim McCachi, who received 35 years.
McCachi has been abroad since 2021, when Seed dismissed it and locked the elected parliament in a move in which the opposition described it as a “coup”.
A total of 41 people were charged in the case. The court also sentenced former intelligence director Lord Longo and former interior spokesman to 15 years in prison.
The defendants included Ghanuchi’s son Mohuda, his daughter Somia and his son -in -law Rafak Abdul Emmelam, who served as Tunisian Foreign Minister from 2011 to 2013. He was sentenced to 35, 25 and 34 years in prison respectively.
The court also issued a sentence for several journalists working for a digital content manufacture firm called Instalingo, which Saeed has examined in the orchest of his 2021 power seized.
Lawyer Mokhar Jamie told Reuters News Agency that the court handed over a 27 -year -old journalist to the journalist’s face, who fled abroad, and a five -year sentence to another journalist, Chadha Haj Mubarak, who was already in jail. It was done.
“These are unfair and political orders aimed at eliminating political opponents.”
Saeed, a former law professor, suspended the Tunisian parliament in 2021 and then dissolved it for governance by decree.
Tunisia held legislative elections at the end of 2022, but voters’ business was low due to the boycott of the opposition. Earlier this year, Seed successfully forwarded a constitutional referendum that increased the powers of the presidency.
Critics have warned of the danger of bringing the country back to “dictatorship”. The National Authority, to prevent violence on Wednesday, said the prison figures are “worrying” as the number of prisoners has increased to more than 32,000 compared to about 22,000 from 2018 to 2021.
Saeed has repeatedly denied the holding of the uprising and said that Tunisia needs their steps to protect them from the chaos of years. But it has struggled to restore the economy.
On Wednesday, the side dismissed its finance minister and appointed a magistrate for the role. The President made this announcement in a Facebook post showing that Mashik Salam Khalidi took oath through SAID.
The President did not initially provide any details for the decision and did not mention the outgoing Finance Minister Sehim Bofderi Nimisia.
Khalidi has led a national commission, which has been entrusted with the collection of public funds before the 2011 uprising against Ben Ali.
