Human rights groups deny trials as further evidence of the conflict of opposition to President Kais Saied.
The collective trial of about 40 opposition figures began in Tunisia, and groups for rights claimed that the control of votes were critical of Tunisia President Kais Saied that they were politically motivated.
Many of the accusedcharged with criminal offenses ranging from “conspiracy against state security” to “belonging to the terrorist group” were noticed by critics of the President, including politicians, former diplomats, lawyers and high media figures
The defendants’ families were reported that they were full of court council of the Tunisia Court on Tuesday, singing “freedom” and accusing the judiciary for acting against the Government’s orders.
“We are facing the biggest judicial scandals,” said Bassam Trifi, head of the Tunisian League for human rights defense. “It’s one of the darkest injustices in the history of Tunisia.”
Charges of Refunding Democratic Gains of Earth Revolution 2011 Saied of his dramatic forces in July 2021When he closed Parliament and rejected his speaker and prime minister, introducing the period of presidential rule by decree.
Many of those currently on trial were prominent critics of the process, such as Juouhar Ben Mbarek, who also led the national front of salvation and citizens against the state group – both arose in protest at Saied’s suspension of Parliament. Ben Mbarek was arrested in a series of raids at Saied’s critics in February 2023.
The others on trial include former staff chief Nadia Akacha, former Chief of Intelligence Kamel Guizani and former leader of the opposing party Ennahd, Abdelhamid Jessessiwho, like Ben Mbarek, was arrested in 2023.
Ben Mbarak, Jessessi and four other defendants – Khayam Turki politicians, Issam Chebbi and Ghazi Chaouachi and lawyer Ridha Belhaj, who were all held in the previous custody – were forbidden to participate in court, adding that the decision was on a non -liter trial. “
Akacha and Guizani live abroad.
Human Rights Watch denied a massive trial, calling it “derision”.
“The Tunisian authorities should immediately publish all those arbitrarily detained over the past two years in the so -called” conspiracy “on violent accusations of security and terrorism, and ended this ridicule,” said Bassam Khawai, a pronoun for human practices.
This move is just the latest interruption against Saed’s political opponents.
RACHED GHANUCHI, an 83-year-old party leader “Muslim Democrat” Ennahd, who was also the president of Parliament, was sentenced to a total of more than 26 years in prison after separate trials after he achieved He was first arrested in April 2023.
And at the opposite end of the political spectrum, Abir Moussi, the leader of the secular free constitutional party, is also in prison since 2023.
Despite Saied guarantees, recently as Sunday that he never interfered with the judiciary, the president was widely charged with the opposite. Tunisian and International Human Rights Groups have previously condemned Saied’s weakening of the judiciary As a check of his power, including rejection of the judges and the dissolution of the body that guaranteed the independence of the judiciary in 2023.
Tunisian courts also played a critical role in removing almost all of Saied rivals from running Last year’s presidential electionHe closes several of their rivals about what critics have described as false accusations and forbid them to run for the elections.
Groups for rights and international bodies continue to criticize Saied’s actions. Amnesty International called for the end of politically motivated persecution, while the United Nations also called for the end of the persecution of political opponents and activists.
At the same time, Tunisia has warm relations with the European Unic, focused on Tunisia, which broke through migrant and refugee routes to Europe from North Africa.
