The family of Ahmed Al-Ammari, a former MP and leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, said Tunisian authorities released Al-Amari on the night of December 24, then arrested him again two days later, while his lawyer, Mukhtar Al-Jamai, confirmed that Al-Amari’s health is deteriorating “due to abuse and poor health care.”
Al-Jamai indicated, in a message on Facebook, that the criminal chamber of the court of first instance of Tunis decided to temporarily release Al-Amari on Tuesday, December 24 and completed the procedures for his release on Wednesday, December 25 at two a.m. in the morning. the day after his transfer from Mornaguia prison to the National Guard zone, his family welcomed him in a degraded state of health.
He added, describing the “torture” suffered by Al-Amari, that the leader of the Ennahda movement arrived at his home in the Shahbaniyah region on Wednesday morning, then was summoned yesterday, Thursday, at ten a.m. by the Ben Guerdane was guarded, but he was released a few hours later and returned to his home.
The lawyer continues that Al-Ammari was preparing on Thursday evening to undergo an urgent and delicate surgical operation decided by his attending physician at Charles Nicole Hospital, but that evening he was also summoned to Ben Guerdane’s guards to conduct further research, and he has not yet been summoned. has not yet been released.
Tunisian authorities arrested around 80 members of the Ennahda movement after a campaign of searches that the movement called “horrible and unprecedented”, stressing that most of those arrested were elderly and were unable to meet their lawyers and obtain their medications while suffering from chronic illnesses.
Last Tuesday, the National Salvation Front, an opposition party in Tunisia, organized a demonstration in front of the capital’s Court of Cassation to demand the release of opposition leaders imprisoned for nearly two years as part of what this is called the “conspiracy against state security affair”.
The leader of the Salvation Front, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, and other members of this gathering which brings together several parties and movements, notably the Ennahdha movement, participated in the demonstration.