Seeking support abroad: desperate attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to return to the scene in Tunisia

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Desperate attempts are being made by the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia through incitement and reliance on external support, in the hope that this will lead to a reduction in security prosecutions and the release of its leader, Rached Ghannouchi.

Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, along with their allies, are trying to seek external backing in the hope of securing the release of their detained leaders.

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The intervention of lawyer Dalila Ben Mbarek Msaddek, sister of Jawhar Ben Mbarek, a leader in the Brotherhood-aligned National Salvation Front, who has been imprisoned since February 2023 in a case involving conspiracy against state security, sparked widespread controversy in Tunisia, with some describing it as “treason” and “collaboration.”

The Tunisian lawyer had called on the European Parliament, during a speech delivered in French before the Human Rights Committee, to adopt a clear official position demanding the release of those she described as “political prisoners.”

Following this intervention, Dalila Ben Mbarek faced multiple accusations. Member of Parliament Badr Eddine Gammoudi accused her, in a Facebook post, of “collaborating with foreign countries.”

Gammoudi stated that “Dalila Msaddek boasts of collaboration and incites foreign states against her own people.”

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Appealing to foreign support

For his part, Tunisian political activist Khaled Bel Tahr said that the Muslim Brotherhood organization has made appealing to foreign support a political practice after realizing the popular rejection and the disavowal of Tunisians toward its policies.

He affirmed that the organization is attempting to act from abroad, hoping to return to the political scene through international pressure aimed at securing the release of its imprisoned leaders.

He explained that these attempts to rely on foreign support by the Ennahdha movement and its allies abroad will not succeed, after foreign powers understood that the Brotherhood’s system has been rejected by the Tunisian people.

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He pointed out that the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood and their allies are unable to consolidate their presence within society, and therefore seek alternative legitimacy abroad, adding that political battles are fought inside Tunisia, not outside it.

Last Saturday, Tunisian President Kais Saied, during the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Internal Security Forces, stated: “Those people (the Muslim Brotherhood) are floundering and changing color every day… Yesterday’s adversaries have become friends and allies. They believed the state was a spoil and the Tunisian people a hostage. But the people, despite their desperate attempts, teach them lesson after lesson and deliver blow after blow.”

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Saied praised the role of security personnel in prisons, saying they “have given a great deal, despite the malicious propaganda campaigns promoted by those who seek to play the victim.”

He stressed that they “apply the law in accordance with the Constitution and treat detainees with dignity and respect for the rights of anyone under detention, contrary to what is promoted by circles of treason and collaboration that follow directives aimed at undermining internal peace in the state by all means.”

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