16/07/2026
In a populist climate that fuels violence and terrorism, an open call for the murder of the secretary general of the workers' party
A person identified as "R.N.", supporter of Kaïs Saïed, published a video on social media containing an explicit call for the assassination of comrade Hamma Hammami, Secretary General of the Workers' Party, because of his opposition to populist authoritarianism since the coup led by Kaïs Saïed on July 25, 2021.
This criminal video remains posted on social media with the authorities taking no action to remove it or bring to justice its author, the same authorities that show no hesitation in hunting down and persecuting bloggers for merely expressing critical views of the regime. This video, dripping with hatred, rancor, and fascism, is nothing but an extension of the same threats and the same accusations that Kaïs Saïed has continually leveled against anyone who opposes his authoritarianism and tyranny whether politicians, journalists, civil society activists, trade unionists or anyone who dares to demand the right to work and to a dignified life: workers, young people, the unemployed, women, intellectuals, and others.
These threats against the Secretary General of the Workers' Party will not weaken his determination nor that of his comrades who have devoted their lives to defending with principle, steadfastness, boldness, and courage, our people's legitimate rights to work, freedom, and national dignity. There is no doubt that these new threats will not make them retreat from the path they have charted for themselves with full awareness and conviction. The Workers' Party will fiercely defend itself and its activists starting with its Secretary General.
The Workers' Party calls on Tunisian women and men, who have paid a heavy price to win their freedom and their rights to stand up against these criminal calls which, in the video mentioned, also targeted a number of other opposition political figures, and against all attempts by the coup regime to forcibly drag them back to dictatorship, in order to further impoverish them, starve them, deprive them of the most basic conditions for a dignified life, and subordinate their country to the interests of a handful of unscrupulous profiteers inside and outside of the country.
Down with arbitrary power
Down with terrorism
Long live the Workers' Party
Workers' Party (TUNISIA)
Tunis, July 14, 2026