Rached Ghannouchi is the co-founder and president of the Muslim Democratic Ennahdha Party in Tunisia and served as the Speaker of Tunisia’s democratically elected parliament. He was elected Speaker of Parliament in November 2019.

The imprisonment of Rached Ghannouchi, former Speaker of Tunisia’s Parliament and leader of the Ennahdha Movement, represents a defining moment in Tunisia’s democratic trajectory.

Rached Ghannouchi is one of the most influential political thinkers and democratic leaders in the modern Arab and Muslim world. He is the co-founder and longtime president of Tunisia’s Ennahdha Movement, the country’s largest political party after the 2011 revolution, and served as Speaker of Tunisia’s democratically elected Parliament from 2019 until the suspension of parliament in July 2021.

Rached Ghannouchi, former Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament and leader of the Ennahdha Movement, is one of Tunisia’s most prominent political figures and one of the most influential advocates of democratic governance in the Arab world.