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Ghannouchi, Rachid

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Ghannouchi, Rachid (1941– )

Tunisian politician. He founded the Mouvement de la Tendance Islamiste in 1979 (renamed Ennahda in 1989), which was never legalized as a political party. Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of violence and plotting with foreign powers to overthrow Bourguiba's government in 1987, he was pardoned and freed in 1988 after President Ben Ali's general amnesty. Denied recognition and participation in the multiparty elections, his movement went underground and was again accused of waging a war against Ben Ali's regime. Subjected to a major crackdown 1991–92, he fled the country and obtained political asylum in the UK.



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