An Ennahda activist died in Tunis at the end of the rallies, violently repressed, from January 14th, the anniversary date of the fall of Ben Ali.
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Ridha Bouziane, 57, died as a result of a demonstration that grouped a thousand opponents to the head of state, Kaïs Saïed, Friday, January 14, in the heart of Tunis. The victim would have “succumbed to acute cerebral bleeding caused by severe violence of security officers, when he took part in the celebrations of January 14”, according to a statement issued Wednesday 19 January by the Islamo-Conservative Party Ennahda, of whom M . Bouziane was a member. The protesters had to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of the fall, in 2011, from the ex-dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Prohibited by the Ministry of the Interior, the rallies had been scattered after violent heat up with a police using water guns.
The causes of the death of Mr. Bouziane advanced by Ennahda have not yet been confirmed by a forensic investigation. This activist in the port city of Sousse had responded to the call of Ennahda, organizer with the Citizens Collective against the coup, a movement of political and intellectual figures, of the manifestation of January 14th. A “spoliated” anniversary date, according to their words, by President Kaïs Saïed. The Head of State had indeed decided to change the holiday day of the Tunisian revolution, moved it to December 17, the date of the immolation by the fire of the vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid and the beginning of the Popular manifestations.
m. Saïed faces a stubborn political opposition since he has granted the full powers on July 25 and that he extended the state of exception, a resumption in hand containing the “gel” of Parliament. At the forehead formed by Ennahda and the collective against the coup settled on Friday, left and centrist parties. The tense and violent climate in which this event took place testifies to the increasing security of the authorities, according to the opponents of the President, but also human rights defenders.
“Unprecedented attacks of the forces of order “
Tunisian justice said to have been informed of the arrival at the hospital, on January 14, of Ridha Bouziane and that a first investigation “did not show signs of violence.” An autopsy should be conducted and the Tunis court has opened an investigation. The Ministry of the Interior had not yet expressed Wednesday on the death of the activist but he insisted, after the manifestations of January 14, on the prohibition against the public rallies because of the sanitary restrictions put in place two days more early. The Ministry added that the protesters “had deliberately tried to break the police cord, to force the metal barriers and to attack the security forces deployed to maintain public order”.
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