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Abdelmajid Sahraoui is a Tunisian politician and trade unionist, founding member of political parties Nidaa Tounes and Machrouu Tounes and former deputy general secretary of the UGTT.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref> Sahraoui was arrested during the tumultuous events of the Black Thursday riots[1] with other personalities such as trade unionist Habib Achour and Taeib Baccouche, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and General Secretary of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU).[2] Following these events, Sahraoui created an independent trade union movement in his home base of Sousse to which the Ministry of Interior under the Ben Ali government responded virulently.[3] Shorly after the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Sahraoui created the Trade Union Activities and Research Center (Centre des études et des activités ouvrières (CEAO)).

  1. ^ "Fear of Torture / Ill-treatment / Fear of further possible arrests / Prisoners of conscience" (PDF). Amnesty International. Retrieved 18 January 2021. {{cite web}}: |first1= missing |last1= (help)
  2. ^ "Three Questions with Taieb Baccouche, Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union". MaghrebArabe.org. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  3. ^ Bellin, Eva (2002). Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development. London: Cornell University Press. p. 207. ISBN 080147745X. Retrieved 18 January 2021. {{cite book}}: More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)