Eight Arab nationalist figures have called for the release of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi, Republican Party Secretary-General Issam Chebbi and other political figures detained in Tunisia. The Tunisian authorities have carried out a campaign of arrests that included leaders and activists in the opposition.
The opposition considers the exceptional measures "a coup against the constitution of the revolution (the 2014 constitution) and the consecration of absolute autocracy" Another group sees them as a "correction of the course of the 2011 revolution," which overthrew President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.