Tunisia: Ghannouchi’s daughter says family denied information after his collapse in prison

The daughter of jailed Tunisian Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi said his family had been denied all contact with him and information about his condition for more than a week after the 84-year-old reportedly fainted amid high temperatures and was taken to hospital.

Concerns have emerged over the opposition leader’s health after an eyewitness said she saw him lose consciousness inside Mornaguia Prison.

“Where is my father? Where are they hiding him? Why prevent visits?” Soumaya Ghannouchi said in a video posted on Instagram.

She said lawyers seeking to visit him at the prison were told he had been transferred to hospital. But when a lawyer and her mother went to the hospital, authorities refused them entry or any information, she added.

“The last thing we heard from the lawyers was that my father felt dizzy and fainted during the visit due to heat exhaustion,” she said, adding that temperatures inside the prison had exceeded 50 degrees Celsius.

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