In Tunisia, police arrested opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi and raided his Ennahda party’s headquarters in the latest crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied. Saied has been accused of carrying out a legislative coup after he dismissed the government, declared rule by decree and vowed to rewrite Tunisia’s constitution in 2021. This is Ghannouchi speaking just two days before he was detained.

Rached Ghannouchi: “Tunisia without Ennahda party and without political Islam, without the left or any of the components, is a civil war project. This is a crime, in fact. And therefore, those who welcomed this coup cannot be democrats.”

In other news from Tunisia, clashes broke out between mourning protesters and police at the funeral of professional soccer player Nizar Issaoui, who died last week after setting himself on fire, in what has been described as a protest against the “police state.” Prior to his death, Issaoui decried the police for accusing him of terrorism after a dispute with a fruit vendor over the price of bananas.