Rached Ghannouchi

With Abdelfattah Mourou and others he founded the Islamic Tendency Movement in April 1981; he was arrested that July and spent eleven years in prison at Bizerte, where he wrote Al-Hurriyat al-'Ammah (Public Freedoms in the Islamic State), and where he was tortured. Released in 1984, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987, released again in 1988, and went into exile in the United Kingdom, where he remained for twenty-two years until he returned to Tunisia on 30 January 2011 after the Jasmine Revolution. He has been president of the Ennahda Movement since November 1991, was named to the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people in 2012, and received the Chatham House Prize that year jointly with Moncef Marzouki. He was elected Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People on 13 November 2019 and held the office until President Kais Saied's exceptional measures of 25 July 2021. {cite:source/wikipedia-rached-ghannouchi-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-rached-ghannouchi-ar}

Ghannouchi was arrested in 2023 under President Saied, and prison sentences followed one after another: three years in February 2024, fourteen years in July 2025, an extension to twenty-two years in January 2026, and life imprisonment on 2 June 2026; the articles still record him as living. {cite:source/wikipedia-rached-ghannouchi-en}