Issam Chebbi, born December 23, 1957 in Tunis and originally from Tozeur, is a Tunisian politician.
In the case of “conspiracy against state security”
Under 10 chapters of the Tunisian Penal Code – including Article 72, which prescribes the death penalty for attempting to “substitute the state”
February 22, 2023: suspended
February 25, 2023: The First Investigating Judge of Office 36 of the Anti-Terrorism Judicial Pole issued a prison deposit card against
Lawyer Booker indicated – in an interview with Al-Jazeera – that the searches and arrests of their father, which targeted Issam Al-Shabi and Shaima Issa, all took place outside the framework of legal procedures, as he put it.
Initial interrogation: Wissam Al-Saghir, the official spokesman for the Republican Party, explained that the initial hearing was limited to “four questions, which are his meeting with Khayyam al-Turki at his home, and the fact that Khayyam al-Turki mediated to meet Chebbi, the counselor of the American embassy in Tunisia, and the latter refused that, although the law does not prohibit such questions.” meetings, and then about his relationship with Kamal al-Latif. (Ultra)
May 26, 2023: The official spokesperson for the Republican Party stressed that Issam Chebbi has been in prison for 94 days and they have never heard him after the initial hearing (Ultra).
Poor living conditions: The Republican Party announced, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, that its Secretary-General, Issam al-Shabi, “was subjected to abuse by being transferred to a room for common-law prisoners in humiliating and degrading conditions, in order to perpetuate the policy of healing and harming his morale.”
Lawyer Enas Harath stated, in her post on Facebook, after visiting Jawhar bin Mubarak, Reda Belhaj, Essam Al-Shabi, Ghazi Al-Shawashi, and Lazhar Al-Akrami, and after meeting colleagues who visited the Turkish tents, that they were “deprived of the right to wash and exercise, and they were also transferred to very dirty rooms, all of which Insects and not equipped with any sanitary facilities, as the human needs must be relieved in a hole on the ground, in addition to depriving them of the most basic rights of the prisoner, such as treatment,” she asserted. Enas Harath also considered that “there are instructions from the regime to the prison administration to endanger the lives of political detainees by placing them with carefully selected public right prisoners, most of whom were imprisoned for premeditated murder cases,” according to her post.
Bailiff and notary by profession, defender of human rights, he was a member of the executive committee (2004-2012) then deputy general secretary (2012) of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP).
Head of the PDP list in the constituency of Ariana in the legislative elections of October 24, 2004, he was elected member of the constituent assembly as representative of the PDP in this constituency on October 23, 2011. He is a member of the preamble commission there. , fundamental principles and revision of the Constitution.
He joined Al Joumhouri’s political bureau when it was created in April 2012. In February 2017, he replaced Maya Jribi as party leader.
On February 22, 2023, he was arrested and charged with “conspiracy against the state” as part of a wave of arrests including several members of the National Salvation Front.
