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Tunisia: Ennahda says senior party official 'kidnapped'

2022-01-01

[DW] Lawmaker Noureddine Bhairi has been "kidnapped by security agents in civilian clothes and taken to an unknown destination," according to the Ennahda party.

Security forces have detained a bigwig from the largest party in the suspended Tunisian parliament for the first time since President Kais Saied seized power three months ago, the Ennahda party said on Friday.

The moderate Islamist Ennahda,

...also known as the Moslem Brotherhood in Tunisia, so not moderate at all...

which accuses Saied of an unfair power grab, said plainclothes security agents had captured the party's vice president, Noureddine Bhairi.

"This morning, the Vice-President of Ennahdha party and Member of Parliament, Noureddine Bhiri, was kidnapped by security agents in civilian clothes and taken to an unknown destination," the party said on Facebook. "During the kidnapping operation, lawyer Ms Saida al-Akremi, wife of Mr Bhiri, who was with him, was ~~violent~~ mostly peacefully assaulted." The party wrote that the move set a "dangerous precedent" on a path of "tyranny" through an "elimination of political opponents."

Ennahdha's fall from grace

Ennahda was banned before the 2011 revolution. It has since returned to the political stage and become the most consistently influential party, being a part of successive coalition governments.

As Tunisia's economy stagnated and its political system ground to a halt in recent years, support for the party has waned. Before the parliament was suspended by Saied, Ennahda controlled the largest number of seats, but was winning fewer votes than in previous years.

In recent months, several senior politicians and business leaders have been detained or subjected to prosecution, often involving cases of corruption or defamation.

Human rights groups have decried some of those arrests as well as criticizing the use of military courts to hear such cases.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 Mooks aren't deceiving

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-01 22:44

#3 Within a decade of its founding the Muslim Brotherhood created a radical jihadist element within its organization in Egypt. In time in was never radical enough for locos like Qutb, Zawahiri, and the like. The Brotherhood as now created has no blood lust Jihadist element, but it has on many occasions funded such movements when it thought proper. I am aware that the American left considers the Ikhwan a soft movement, but looks are deceiving. As is the American Left.

Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 2022-01-01 18:28

#2 Like Al Ahram, Deutsche Welle is a government communication project, so projects the opinions of the government on what should be reported and now. That said, both are available in English and give us at least some of the local and international stories Rantburg is interested in, so are useful to us here. Also useful as supplementary information to stories obtained elsewhere, confirming that information and adding additional useful details.

Yes. I did note as an in-line comment what Ennahda is; sadly, everyone except Al Ahram describes them and all other Moslem Brotherhood political parties as moderate because they prefer to obtain the caliphate by the soft jihad of the law and politics instead of the hard jihad of the sword like Al Qaeda, ISIS and other open jihad terror groups.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-01 17:29

#1 Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international service, is no more dependable than the AP or the NY Times. Ennahda is a Muslim Brotherhood outfit and has been for decades. Its leader Rachid Ghannouchi has long been placed in the hierarchy of the Ikhwan al-Muslimeen and yet DW takes no note of its history.

Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 2022-01-01 09:13

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