Tunisia's Crackdown on Opposition: Leader Arrested and Party HQ Raided
Tunisian security forces arrested the leader of the main opposition party, Rachid Ghannouchi, and shuttered its headquarters, escalating a crackdown on the president’s critics in this formerly authoritarian North African country. Ghannouchi is being held at a military facility in Tunis, apparently on terrorism charges. The arrest of Ghannouchi, a prominent and polarizing figure in Tunisian politics for half a century, is a major step, even amid a wave of arrests targeting President Kais Saied’s opponents in recent months.