Three leaders of Tunisia’s once-dominant Ennahdha party are on a hunger strike to protest their detention under a crackdown against opponents of President Kais Saied, the party and a detainee’s wife.
According to wife of One of them, after visiting him in prison she said that 64 year old Sahbi Atig, a former leader of Ennahdha’s parliamentary bloc, has been on his hunger strike for 32 days, leading to a severe deterioration in his health.
The Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party was the largest in parliament before Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021
The move was part of a power-grab allowing him to rule by decree in the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings in the region more than a decade ago.
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