Summary With the news that Rached Ghannouchi has gone on hunger strike alongside two of his fellow incarcerated opposition figures, we must stand with him and other popular political prisoners in Tunisia. Write to your foreign ministry demanding they pressure Tunisia into releasing them.
IHRC condemns the jail sentences handed down to Tunisian opposition leaders yesterday and calls for an immediate end to their persecution by the revanchist deep state. The sentences against Rached El Ghannouchi and Said Ferjani, among others, are further evidence of the authoritarian drift of
Summary Act now and write to your foreign ministry in support of popular Muslim political prisoners who have been arrested in Tunisia. Background In Tunisia, President Kais Saied has committed mass arrests against his political opponents, whilst using the threat of arrest to intimidate
IHRC has launched a new campaign to apply public pressure on the British and foreign governments to help secure the freedom of political prisoners currently being held by the Tunisian regime. In 2021 Kais Saied, the president of Tunisia suspended and dissolved parliament in order
IHRC is calling on the Tunisian government to free the detained leader of the Islamist opposition party Rachid Ghannouchi who was arrested on Monday as part of a continuing crackdown on opposition groups. About 100 plain clothes policemen burst into Ghannouchi’s home on the 27th
The systematic human rights abuses which took place over the past two decades needs to be brought to an end. All political prisoners must be released or re-tried in a just court.
Citizens International welcomes the Tunisian people’s revolution that toppled the dictatorial regime of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) welcomes the departure of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from Tunisia. His relinquishing of power however does not guarantee a move towards representative politics or human rights.
