Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, would begin a hunger strike in prison, according to a statement from his Islamist Ennahda party released on Friday. Ghannouchi, 82, has been in prison since April. His lawyer said the charges stem from a funeral eulogy he gave last year for a member of his Ennahda party when he said the deceased “did not fear a ruler or tyrant, he only feared God.”

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