Related Post
Lawyers for the head of the Free Destourian Party, Abeer Moussi, said that yesterday, Tuesday, she began a hunger strike in prison to protest “the violation of her rights to freedom, political activity, and intellectual affiliation.”
Last month, a judge ordered the imprisonment of Abeer Moussa after she was arrested at the entrance to the presidential palace on suspicion of “an assault intended to alter the state’s structure and cause chaos,” as part of a campaign that the authorities began this year against opposition politicians.
Musi’s party had previously warned of “attempts to create legal obstacles to keep her from participating in the presidential elections” expected next year.
Moussi’s lawyers said in a statement that her hunger strike will continue for 16 days, coinciding with the international campaign to combat violence against women in Tunisia.
They added that the head of the Free Constitutional Party will send urgent communications to all regional and international institutions that have agreements with the Tunisian state to reveal the violations she is being exposed to and to denounce the decline in women’s rights that is currently witnessed in Tunisia.
Tunisian police arrested more than 20 prominent political figures, some of whom were accused of conspiring against state security.
The Tunisian president described Kais Saied Those arrested as “terrorists, traitors and criminals.”
Saied, who was elected president in 2019, closed the elected parliament in 2021 and moved to power by decree, measures that his opponents described as a coup, which he rejects and says that his steps are legitimate.
In recent months, the Free Destourian Party has organized protests against President Saied, and the party’s leader, Abeer Moussi, accuses Saied of outlawing his rule.
Abeer Moussa is a supporter of the late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted by massive protests in 2011. uprising Which later spread throughout the Middle East and became known as the “Arab Spring.”
