Draft:Sadek Shourou

Sadek Shourou
Name	Sadek Shourou
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Tunisia
Brith Date	1952 CE
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Religion	Islam

Sadek Shourou is the former president of the Ennahda Movement in Tunisia, who is close to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and is a memorizer of the Quran. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, was a professor at the Tunis Faculty of Medicine in Chemistry until his arrest in 1991 CE. He is a member of the Scientific Research Committee at the University Research Center in the southern suburbs of Tunis and a member of the Education Syndicate of the General Union of Workers of Tunisia.

Biography

He was born in 1952 CE and holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis. Until his arrest in 1991 CE, he worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Medicine. He was a member of the Education Syndicate of the General Union of Workers of Tunisia. He was known for supporting student struggles and participated in the founding conference of the General Union of Tunisian Students. He is a memorizer of the Quran and is known for his interest in religious education.

Activities

He joined the Central Council of the Ennahda Movement in the early 1980s and was elected as its president at its conference held in 1988 CE. He continued his activities until he was arrested in 1991 CE. He participated in the founding conference of the General Union of Tunisian Students in Tunisia.

Imprisonment and Arrest

In 1992 CE, he was tried in a military court at the head of 265 Ennahda leaders, and the prosecution demanded his execution. However, under pressure from human rights organizations, the regime agreed to issue a life imprisonment sentence against him. He was transferred to more than one prison and was under severe pressure to condemn the movement and ask for pardon from the head of state, but he refused. What influenced him in the military court was his statement, where he said: "Your Excellency, if you do this by your action, you want to uproot the Renaissance Movement from society and from the soil that sprouted it, for it is a tree whose root is firm and whose branches are in the sky."

His fate was at best execution or life imprisonment, but no one expected him to be released and return to his normal life. He, who was the former president of the Islamic Renaissance Movement of Tunisia, was released on Thursday, 6 November 2008 CE, after spending eighteen years in Morngoya prison _which is one hour away from Tunis_.

He says: "This is a matter that perhaps discussion about it would be long and requires many writings. In short, we are grateful to God Almighty that He granted us stability for eighteen years, 13 of which I spent in solitary confinement, which is undoubtedly a hard experience. These years would not have passed without the power and help of God Almighty. In our prisons, we relied on preserving the Quran and reciting it. We were engaged in strengthening our connection with God Almighty through remembrance, Prayer, Fasting, contemplation of the verses of the Quran and understanding their meanings, and Night Prayer."

"We consider the prison a black period in the history of Tunisia. We ask God Almighty to protect us from the likes of it. The prison conditions were very harsh."

Ennahda and the Tunisia Regime

Impact of the Regime's Advancement on the Islamic Renaissance Movement in Tunisia

The file of detainees of the Ennahda Movement in the prisons of Tunisia _with the publication of news regarding the impact of the regime on the Islamic Renaissance Movement in Tunisia_ closes, and this caused the demands of the movement to shift in another direction. It also enables the movement to gain its right to participate. Legal political activity and also solving the issue of the movement's refugees abroad in Britain and other European countries who had fled under pressure from security attacks _so that they could return to their country Tunisia_ are among the achievements of the publication of this news.

References

• See: The entry for Sadek Shourou in Ikhwan Wiki; ikhwanwiki.com.