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Ghannouchi arrested under President Saied

On 17 April 2023 Tunisian police arrested Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the parliament President Kais Saied had suspended in 2021; rights groups condemned it as part of a crackdown on critics.

Rached Ghannouchi (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 17 April 2023 Tunisian police arrested Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the parliament President Kais Saied had suspended in 2021; rights groups condemned it as part of a crackdown on critics.

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    Ghannouchi arrested under President Saied. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.thenationalnews.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: ghannouchi+arrest · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Ghannouchi arrested under President Saied. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ghannouchi-arrested-2023-04-17

https://factrail.ai/facts/ghannouchi-arrested-2023-04-17

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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