Is Tunisia seeing new resolutions against the Brotherhood and Ennahdha?
Major collapses affecting the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia and members of the Ennahdha Movement amid President Kais Saied’s attempts to cleanse Tunisia once and for all of their corruption and terrorism.
Tunisian President Kais Saied said he was determined to clean up the country from those who had tampered with the country for many years after the overthrow of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Since July 25, 2012, Tunisian authorities have banned prominent Brotherhood leaders from traveling for involvement in terrorism, financial corruption, and money laundering, including a travel ban in the investigation into the 2013 political assassinations of political opponents Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, in which Ennahdha’s secret service was accused.
In 2013, opposition figure Chokri Belaid was assassinated in Tunisia. The assassination was claimed by radical Islamists. Tunisian law requires a clear judicial decision to impose the travel ban, and not as the Tunisian Brotherhood claim.
In May, an Ariana court issued a travel ban for all those investigated in the so-called secret service case. Ennahdha leaders were accused of running a parallel security apparatus during its rule after the 2011 elections.
President Kais Saied dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council, saying that it serves certain parties that are not in the public interest. They are long overdue in passing judgments on corruption and terrorism cases and Ennahdha’s ruling on the council’s decisions.
The investigation authorities also ordered the detention of a former security official and two Brotherhood leaders in a case related to terrorism, on suspicion of involvement in networks of Tunisians to travel to hotbeds of tension in Syria. The investigation also investigated former Minister of Religious Affairs Noureddine El Khademi, for his involvement in terrorist and financial crimes related to the travel of Tunisian youth to hotbeds of tension, and he was prevented from travel.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahdha Party has been involved in sending thousands of young people to terrorist hotbeds, joining the ISIS terrorist group, and fighting in Syria through Libya. A number of youth travel associations have been disbanded, and Tunisian and Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been involved in facilitating the transit of terrorists through Carthage airport, training young people in the use of weapons, and in recruiting young people. In 2016, Tunisian authorities thwarted operations to send young people to Ben Gardane, and Tunisian women who went to Syria, including the Khansaa, Computers and Propagators battalion.
Ghannouchi was summoned to go to court for investigation in the case of Namaa, through which young people are sent. The Central Bank froze its funds to file charges related to security, youth travel, corruption, links with Al-Qaeda, money laundering, and assassinations.
In this way, Ennahdha follows the same scenario as the Egyptian Brotherhood, and they are close to dissolving the group in Tunisia after their involvement in several crimes, most notably supporting terrorism, political assassinations and penetration of Tunisian institutions.
