2024-10-19 05:57:00
MADRID 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Tunisian court this Friday sentenced the former Minister of Justice and leader of the Islamic party Ennahda, Noereddine Bhiri, to ten years in prison for an alleged publication on social networks for which he is accused of conspiracy against the State, incitement to civil disobedience and call for insurrection.
The first instance sentence declares the former minister guilty of charges of “conspiracy against state security, incitement to civil disobedience and incitement to insurrection”, based on a publication on social networks that his lawyer, the opposition Samir Dilou, denounced. as “untraceable”, according to the Kapitalis portal.
Since his arrest in February 2023, Bhiri’s defense has denied the charges, saying the publication attributed to the Ennhada member “never existed” and calling the arrest an attack against opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied.
The Islamist group has been denouncing for months the authoritarian drift of the president, who in May 2021 assumed all powers after dissolving the Government and suspending Parliament – led by the leader of Ennahda, Rachid Ghanuchi -, then dissolved.
The opposition, largely united around the National Salvation Front (FSN), denounced the increase in repression and called for Saied’s resignation, especially given the wave of arrests of opponents, activists and journalists and the low rate of arrests in the constitutional referendum and elections held since then in Tunisia.
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