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Tunisia: Protests against police spreads

Tunisia: Protests against police spreads

PROTESTS that erupted more than a week against police abuse in Sejoumi neighbourhood of Tunisia's capital spread to other poor neighbourhoods late yesterday. The protesters gathered in Ettadhamen and Intilaka neighborhoods, blocked roads, burned tires and threw stones at police, as officers chased demonstrators and unleashed tear gas, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Protests escalated last week after a video circulated online showed police stripping and beating a young man, triggering widespread anger among the public. On Tuesday, hundreds gathered in Sijoumi, raising slogans against the government and calling on officials to stop police abuse and punish those…
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Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

HUNDREDS of people marched in central Tunis yesterday against inequality and police brutality, in defiance of a ban on demonstrations and as security forces tried to block off the city's main central avenue. Protesters chanted "the people want the fall of the regime" - a chant popularised during the so-call Arab Spring a decade ago - and held up banners and slogans decrying the security response to more than a week of demonstrations and nightly clashes between youths and police in cities across Tunisia. The protests, 10 years after a popular revolt against autocratic rule introduced democracy in Tunisia, represent…
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Tunisian youth clash with police

Tunisian youth clash with police

TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL THE 19-year-old smoking with friends in a poor district of Tunisia's capital had a simple explanation for night-time clashes between youths and police that have shaken the country - he has nothing to lose. A decade after mass protests toppled Tunisia's long-time president and sparked uprisings across the Middle East, anger is boiling over again amid economic stagnation, the global pandemic and a widening disconnect between people and their leaders. "There's nothing here ... there's no opportunity. The only government we know is the police car coming to arrest people," said Mohammed, surrounded by nodding…
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“The people want the fall of the regime”

“The people want the fall of the regime”

PROTESTERS have rallied in Tunisia's capital after several nights of street violence, reviving the chant that rang a decade ago in a revolution that brought in democracy: "the people want the fall of the regime". Daytime protests in Tunis and some other cities demanding jobs, dignity and the release of detainees have followed clashes over recent nights between security forces and youths, as COVID-19 restrictions add to wider economic malaise. "The whole system must go... We will return to the streets and we will regain our rights and our dignity that a corrupt elite seized after the revolution," said Maher…
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