The party that once dominated Tunisian politics has faded away since President Kais Saied staged a dramatic power grab, with ...

Tunisian President Kais Saied enters his fifth year of authoritarian rule by sentencing politicians to lengthy jail terms. Is ...

Tunisians took to the streets Friday to protest President Kais Saied, marking four years since he made moves to consolidate ...

Tunisia’s leader of Ennahda Islamist party, Rached Ghannouchi, has been detained in the run-up to his trial on charges of treason and threatening national security. No date has been fixed for the ...

Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahdha party, is the most prominent critic of Tunisian President Kais Saied. While he has been detained for questioning in the past and released, his supporters described ...

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, adding to a string of other jail terms he has received in separate cases.

Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Islamist Ennahda party and former speaker of the parliament, during an interview with Reuters at his office in Tunis, Tunisia, July 15, 2022. Reuters A Tunisian ...

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi began a hunger strike in prison on Monday, joining other government critics striking to protest what they see as unjust incarceration. Imed Khemiri ...

Ghannouchi and several other Tunisian intellectuals founded the Islamic Tendency Movement in 1981, which became Ennahda in 1989, after being inspired by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Ghannouchi, 82, head of the Ennahda main opposition party, has been in prison since April. Last year he was sentenced to a year in prison on charges of incitement against police.

A lawyer for the Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi says he has been detained after a police search Associated Press Monday 17 April 2023 22:12 BST ...