21/6/2025–|Last update: 04:19 (Mecca time)
Yesterday, a Tunisian court issued a sentence in absentia to prison Al -Munsif Al Marzouki For 22 years, on charges related to the attack on state security, in a move that strengthens the opposition’s concerns about the escalation of a campaign against the president’s critics Qais Saeed.
In his first comment on the ruling, Al -Marzouki said, “I say to these judges: Your rulings are invalid and you are void … and they will be tried.” He added in a post on his official page on Facebook “Democracy will return.”
This is the third prison sentence in absentia against Al -Marzouki, as two sentences had previously been sentenced to 4 years in prison in separate cases.
Al Marzouqi, who took over the presidency of the country from 2011 to 2014, is one of the most prominent critics of President Qais Saeed. He accuses him of dismantling the institutions of the democratic state since he dissolved Parliament and began to judge the decrees in 2021 and has since took control of most of the authorities.
Saeed defended his decisions and considered them necessary to restore stability and order in Tunisia That has been suffering from successive political and economic crises for years.
In a related context, another Tunisian court issued – yesterday, Friday, a 15 -year prison sentence against Al -Sahabi Atiq, the prominent leader of the opposition Renaissance Party, for money laundering, according to his lawyer told Reuters.
This ruling comes as part of a series of cases that targeted opponents, as a Tunisian court issued last April prison sentences of 66 years of opposition leaders, lawyers and businessmen on charges of conspiracy against state security.
Most of the leaders of political parties are currently in prisons, including Abeer Moussa, head of the Free Constitutional Party and Rashid Ghannouchi, the historical leader For the Renaissance movement And both are the most prominent opponents of Saeed.