Tunisia’s jailed Ennahda leader Ghannouchi stages hunger, medication strike, defense team says

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, launched a hunger and medication strike five days ago to protest the “complete isolation” imposed on him at a hospital, his defense team said Monday, Anadolu reports. In a statement published on Ghannouchi’s Facebook page, the defense team said that the 85-year-old Ennahda leader was transferred to a hospital on July 29. “Since then, complete isolation has been imposed on him, with his lawyers and family prevented from visiting him, communicating with him or even being provided with any information about his health condition, despite repeated requests submitted to all concerned authorities,” the statement said. “In light of this total blackout on information, the defense team learned that Ghannouchi began a hunger and medication […]