Tunisia News
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A protest in the northwest Tunisian city of Kef turned violent Thursday, leaving 15 injured, as a strong police cordon in Tunis held another demonstration by unemployed university graduates at bay. Police fired teargas to disperse a protest by hundreds of residents of Kef when demonstrators tried to storm the local government headquarters, chanting "no to exclusion, marginalisation and contempt,"
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A huge fire was raging in Tunis's Moncef Bey market on Thursday, causing damage to dozens of shops, according to an AFP photographer on the scene. The fire began on Thursday morning in the electronic goods section of the market on the southern edge of the Tunisian capital. Hours later, firefighters were still battling to put out the flames. A
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A Tunisian military prosecutor demanded the death penalty Wednesday for ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is being tried in absentia over killings during last year's popular uprising. Defence lawyers and the victims' relatives alike were surprised by the decision, as Ben Ali is charged only with "complicity in voluntary homicide" while others are accused of direct involvement. Aside
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Thousands of hardline Islamists, some in Afghan military garb and waving swords, converged Sunday in central Tunisia to rally for one of the country's most radical religious movements. Under the stunned gaze of a few tourists, who quickly scurried away, busloads of supporters of the Ansar al-Sharia movement poured into Kairouan, Islam's fourth-holiest city. The assembly provided a vivid illustration
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Djerba - Security concerns and threats from some Salafi Islamists kept thousands of Jewish pilgrims away from an annual celebration on the Tunisian island of Djerba this week. No more than 500 pilgrims attended the religious festival celebrated a month after Passover at one of Africa's oldest synagogues on Wednesday and Thursday - an event that used to attract thousands
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Nearly 1,500 Jews are expected on Thursday at Tunisia's Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, reviving a pilgrimage scaled back last year amid security fears, organisers said Monday. Some 200 pilgrims from France and Italy had already arrived on the tourist island 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of Tunis and 300 others were expected on Thursday, chief organiser Rene Trabelsi
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Tunis - A Tunisian court on Thursday slapped a small fine on the head of the Nessma television station for undermining morality by screening the film "Persepolis", which included depictions of God. Nabib Karoui broadcast the award-winning Franco-Iranian film which recounts the Iranian revolution and its aftermath through the eyes of a young girl, on 07 October last year. The
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A special review of the Tunisian media was boycotted Friday by journalists and others in an illustration of the ongoing mistrust between the nation's post-revolutionary leaders and the press. The Islamist government had called for a two-day series of meetings to address the fraught relationship between state media and Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party that won elections in October after
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Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, whose Islamist party has strained ties with journalists, called on Thursday for fence-mending across-the-board, especially with the media. Relations are strained between state media and Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party that won elections in October after the ouster last year of longserving dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The state television network Wataniya is regularly
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Demonstrators who claim Tunisia's state television network is backing the ousted Ben Ali dictatorship ended nearly eight weeks of sit-ins Wednesday after the government asked them to leave. Dozens of protesters had been camped outside the offices of Wataniya since March 2 in the capital Tunis, demanding the "cleansing" of the national broadcaster and jeering at journalists. Sit-in organiser Halima
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Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents highlights the region's desperate unemployment problem. Applying for a job at the Gafsa Phosphates Company (CPG), long the area's main employer, has become so fraught with economic angst that police sent reinforcements for the company's latest hiring round, after the
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Tunis - Tunisia opened on Saturday a national conference calling for justice for the victims of the Ben Ali regime, with its leaders saying that scores must be settled for reconciliation to begin. "Tunisians are expecting tangible results, they cannot wait indefinitely. The wounds of the past must be cured and healed," said President Moncef Marzouki at the meeting, which
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Tunisia was in shock Tuesday after riot police brutally clamped down on protesters defying a demonstration ban in the capital, with even President Moncef Marzouki denouncing "unacceptable violence". "Black Monday", "fascist behaviour", "savagery" were among the harsh comments after some of the worst violence since last year's revolution that led to the downfall of Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben
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Police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse a rally on a central Tunis avenue where demonstrations are banned. Hundreds of demonstrators, marking Martyrs' Day and protesting against the ban which was imposed on March 28, sought shelter in neighbouring streets and shops. -
Several Tunisian centrist parties including the centre-left PDP agreed Saturday to combine forces and gain more clout in a country increasingly challenged by Islamists ahead of general elections. The PDP which has 16 seats in the 217-member Constituent Assembly, set up after the ouster of strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and the post-revolutionary liberal Afek Tounes party which has
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Tunisia's Religious Affairs Minister Nourredine al-Khademi on Saturday said the country will take stock of the hundreds of mosques now in the hands of Salafist extremists. "This is a priority area for my administration," said the minister, who estimated that about 400 of Tunisia's more than 5,000 mosques had fallen under the sway of ultra-conservative Salafists. "Serious problems concern about
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Torture charges against former Tunisian interior minister Abdallah Kallel are fabricated, his daughter and lawyers said Friday ahead of an expected verdict. "He is the victim of a political conspiracy and vendetta," Leila Kallel told AFP at the trial, where several other high-ranking officials from ousted dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime also appeared. Ben Ali himself faces charges
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Tunisia's Jewish community said Wednesday it was making an official complaint over anti-Semitic slogans chanted at a protest demanding the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, in the country. "This is the third time this sort of thing has happened. It's too much. I can't accept it and that's why I'm lodging a complaint," Roger Bismuth, the representative of the
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Tunisia's next elections should be held by the end of June 2013, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said in an interview to be published on Wednesday in the La Presse daily. "We think that the next elections should not take place later than the month of June 2013. It would be preferable for them to take place on April 9 (Tunisia's
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UNESCO has announced that Tunisia will host the 2012 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The prestigious award, worth US$25,000 will be presented in a ceremony marking World Press Freedom Day, on May 3rd. According to UNESCO, the prize "is intended to honor a person, organization, or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defense and/or promotion of
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The man who steered Tunisia in the aftermath of its January 2011 revolution came out of retirement Saturday to criticise the Islamist-led government and galvanise a secular opposition. Beji Caid Essebsi, 85, was the star speaker at a conference held in Monastir -- the hometown of the father of Tunisia's independence, Habib Bourguiba -- and bringing together more than 50
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Tunis - Five months after polls swept an Islamist-led coalition to power in post-revolution Tunisia, the country's kaleidoscopic opposition is striving to unite and fight for a secular state. The myriad opposition parties in Tunisia's constituent assembly are merging into bigger blocs, hoping to mount a stiffer challenge to the dominant Islamist party Ennahda. The secular movement may also have
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Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous Internet freedom group posted video messages on Facebook pages of Tunisian Islamists, threatening reprisals over their efforts to introduce Salafist laws. "We are fighting you... your emails, your bank accounts and transactions will be probed, your hard discs will be copied," said a man wearing the Guy Fawkes mask that has become a
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Hundreds of Muslim women gathered near Tunis Saturday to call for the return of the caliphate, the defunct Islamic system of governance which they said was the only means of guaranteeing their rights. The members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party came from Islamic countries including Arab states, Indonesia and Turkey, as well as from Europe to debate the benefits of
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Tunis - A Tunisian court has convicted and fined the publisher of a Tunisian newspaper for violating public morals by printing a photo of a football player's naked girlfriend. Nasreddine Ben Saida's lawyer said he was fined $660 on Thursday and the court ordered all copies of the newspaper issue destroyed. Critics call the case an attack on media freedom
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