{"id":1188,"date":"2023-09-22T04:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2023-09-22T04:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:38:23","slug":"tunisia-judiciary-orders-detention-of-senior-ennahda-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/tunisia-judiciary-orders-detention-of-senior-ennahda-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: judiciary orders detention of senior Ennahda official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The judiciary in Tunisia ordered the continued detention of Ennahda party\u2019s interim President Mondher Ounissi on Wednesday,\u00a0<i>Anadolu<\/i>\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyer Murad Al-Obeidi told the agency that an investigating judge ordered Ounissi\u2019s detention on the charge of \u201cconspiring against state security.\u201d Ennahda said on 5 September that Tunisian security forces had detained Ounissi and taken him to an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe judiciary will interrogate Ounissi next week to see whether to extend his custody or release him,\u201d said Al-Obeidi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ennahda appointed Ounissi as its acting leader on 26 April following the\u00a0arrest\u00a0of veteran politician and former Speaker of Parliament Rached Ghannouchi. The Tunisian authorities have cracked down on political opponents since February, arresting several media figures, activists and politicians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"YlFs1kS0gN8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tunisian police detain opposition leader, raid Ennahda party HQ\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YlFs1kS0gN8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunisia has gone through a period of unrest ever since President Kais Saied\u00a0sacked\u00a0the government and froze parliamentary operations in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judiciary in Tunisia ordered the continued detention of Ennahda party\u2019s interim President Mondher Ounissi on Wednesday,\u00a0Anadolu\u00a0has reported. Lawyer Murad Al-Obeidi told the agency that an investigating judge ordered Ounissi\u2019s detention on the charge of \u201cconspiring against state security.\u201d Ennahda said on 5 September that Tunisian security forces had detained Ounissi and taken him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}