According to official data, in February, Tunisian authorities arrested a large number of Ennahdha party leaders, including its president Rached Ghannouchi, his deputy Ali Al-Arayedh, and former Minister of Justice Noureddine Bhiri, on charges including conspiracy against state security.
Ennahdha, with the Shura Council being its highest-ranking body, was the largest party in the previous parliament that was dissolved by Tunisian President Kais Saied in July 2021.
I didn’t know that b.t.w. :
In Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba ruled from the independence in 1957 until a coup by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 1987, who stayed in power until the tunisian “Jasmine” revolution of 2011 which eventually put Beji Caid Essebsi in power in 2014(, after banning the islamist party Ansar al-Sharia in 2013).
And since 2019 it’s Kais Saied.
There’s a lot of anti-islamic propaganda about islam supposedly teaching that women are subhumans, so it may be worth mentioning that :
In the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary election, Ennahda candidate Jamilia Ksiksi became Tunisia’s first black female MP.
And, also :
Ennahda became the largest party in parliament in the 2019 election(, so until 2021 according to Telesur)
The Tunisian government has detained at least 17 current or former members of the party, including its head, and closed its offices around the nation since December 2022. Tunisian authorities apprehended Ghannouchi and searched his headquarters in April 2023.