The Tunisian Islamic Renaissance Movement announced that the investigative judge of the Court of First Instance in Tunis, at dawn today (Thursday), ordered the imprisonment of its president , Rashid Ghannouchi, after interrogating him for several hours.

In a statement published on its official Facebook page, the movement denounced this decision, which came "in light of an intervention made by Rashid Ghannouchi during a Ramadan rally organized by the opposition National Salvation Front last Saturday evening," she said.

She described this decision as "unjust" and "political par excellence, intended to cover up the abject failure to improve the social, economic and living conditions of citizens, and the inability to address the suffocating financial crisis in the country."

For his part, lawyer Samir Dilo, a member of the Ghannouchi Defense Authority, confirmed in a post he posted this morning on his official Facebook page, that the investigating judge "issued a prison deposit card against the head of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, today, Thursday, at 5:30." From this morning."

And before that, the official Tunisian News Agency, quoting lawyer Monia Bouali, stated that the investigative judge of the Court of First Instance in Tunis, yesterday evening, began investigating Rashid Ghannouchi and those arrested with him, on charges related to “conspiracy against internal state security and planning an assault intended to replace state body".

Last Monday evening, the Tunisian security authorities arrested Rashid Ghannouchi (82 years old), as Brigadier General Hossam El-Din Jababli, the official spokesman for the General Administration of the National Guard (Gendarmerie), confirmed that Ghannouchi’s arrest came after the issuance of an arrest warrant from the Public Prosecution Office of the Court of First Instance in Tunisia.

He explained that the Fifth Central Division for Combating Information and Communication Technology Crimes was assigned to conduct research and take the necessary measures, following statements made by the head of the Ennahda Movement, which "fall under criminal acts related to the assault intended to change the state's body or cause the population to attack each other with weapons and stir up chaos, murder and plunder." .

Rached Ghannouchi had made statements last Saturday evening in which he warned of a civil war in the country in the form of excluding "political Islam", the left, or any other political party, saying that "Tunisia without political Islam or the left is a civil war project... This is a crime." .

Rashid Ghannouchi is pursuing many accusations and has been facing a number of cases before Tunisian courts for some time, including financial corruption, money laundering, terrorism, assassinations, the transfer of terrorists to hotbeds of tension and intelligence on the security of the Tunisian state.