News24 | Tunisian opposition chief, 82, launches hunger strike

Rached Ghannouchi, head of Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party. Houssem Zouari/AFP Rached Ghannouchi has been in prison since April 2023.He was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of receiving illegal “foreign” funding for his organisation.His party says the hunger strike is “to support all political opponents in the different prisons” in Tunisia.The jailed leader…