For first time, Islamists in Tunisia call Ben Ali to release colleagues
Tunisia, Politics, 5/31/2005

Several Tunisian Islamists, most of them expatriates, called on the Tunisian President Zine al-Abidin Ben Ali to release so far left members of Islamists prisoners in the Tunisian jails.

The persons who advocated this initiative described the decisions taken by Ben Ali in releasing many of them at earlier times as brave stapes "they had welcomed and interacted with."

The list of signatories of this appeal were several former leading figures in the banned al-Nahda movement including Sheikh Abdul Fattah Moro, the second former man in the movement, Ziad al-Doulatly, the founding member of the movement,and al-Azhar Ab'ab a former leading figure in the same movement.

The group which described itself as free from the remains of party affiliations commended by the call made by al-Nahda official spokesman Ali La'reed, who stayed 14 years in prison in his first public appearance after he left the jail, to pardon all political prisoners.

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