His state of health reportedly deteriorated after his hunger strike, which began on 23 June.
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Former Tunisian minister Hamadi Jebali and ex-president of the Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha, arrested on Thursday June 23 and on hunger strike since, was hospitalized on Saturday June 25, his lawyer said. “His condition deteriorated rapidly because he strictly adheres to his hunger strike without taking medication” for cardiovascular disease or diabetes, explained Me Zied Taher. The police did not hand over the drugs to Hamadi Jebali despite the prosecutor’s permission for his family to hand them over, according to the lawyer and his family. According to his supporters, he was transferred to Habib Thameur hospital in Tunis.
The former Prime Minister from 2011 to 2013 and who resigned from Ennahdha since 2014 was arrested on charges of money laundering after transferring funds from abroad to a charity in Tunisia. He denies and accuses the authorities of settling political scores. “The power wants to exclude powerful political actors and undermine the opposition. It harasses Ennahdha, knowing that it has found nothing against it”, gets carried away in Réalités on line the spokesman of the Ennahda party, Imed Khemiri. According to the private Tunisian radio Mosaïque FM, Hamadi Jebali was taken into custody by the Tunis anti-terrorist unit for “suspicions of money laundering”. He was the subject of an investigation into the activities of its boiler manufacturing workshop in the Sousse region.
Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked his government last July and suspended Ennahdha-dominated parliament in what his opponents denounced as a coup. He then dissolved parliament before assuming full powers. However, he remains popular with a section of the population who believe that he is acting in this way against the corruption of the political system.