The president of the Islamist party Ennahdha was sentenced ten days ago to one year in prison. A sentence that arouses very little reaction in Tunisia where the movement is considered, by a significant fringe of the population, as having privileged its interests.
Faced with this indifference, his relatives multiplied their speeches and contacts with foreigners to restore his image and ask for his release. More than 150 intellectuals including linguist Noam Chomsky and thinker Francis Fukuyama signed a platform in which they demand the release of Rached Ghannouchi.