Latest in Tag: Tunisia Highlight
Latest in Tag: Tunisia
Tunisia marks its Arab Spring revolution amid tensions
President Moncef Marzouki, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and parliamentary speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar saluted the national flag at an early-morning ceremony in Tunis to mark the occasion.
New clashes erupt in Tunisian town near Libya
Ben Guerdane, around 30km from the border, has witnessed sporadic unrest since Sunday, fuelled by Tripoli’s decision to close the Ras Jdir border crossing in early September for security reasons.
Stones thrown at Tunisia leaders marking revolt anniversary
Tunisia’s economic recovery has been hampered by persistent insecurity and the crisis in Europe fuelling the anger and frustration of many young Tunisians
More than 250 wounded in Tunisia clashes with police
Much of Tunisia’s interior suffers from a chronic lack of development
More than 250 wounded in Tunisia clashes with police
More than 250 people wounded
Tunisia’s top diplomat slams Israel on Gaza visit
Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda party and others are demanding the “criminalisation of normalised relations” with Israel be written into the country’s new constitution
Security beefed up in Tunis after Islamist clashes
Militants attacked two national guard posts in the Tunis suburb of Manouba on Tuesday night after police arrested a Salafist suspected of assaulting the head of the area’s public security brigade
Tunisia trumps Egypt again
Openness, moderation and higher human values: Tunisian constitutional interpretation of Islam vastly different to Egyptian
Tunisian anti-Islamist blogger fined for “indecency”
The case was brought against Chourabi by a man who claimed he was the victim of a “moral offence” because of the alleged incident
Review: Human rights, police brutality and Salafis
Various issues have occupied considerable space in Egyptian columns. While some commentators criticise the staunch determination of Salafis to impose their own interpretation of Shariâa, others reject the sympathy expressed by some of Egypt’s intelligentsia with the alleged anti-Islamist coup d’Ă©tat in Tunisia. The incident of the brutal detainment and humiliating treatment of the political …
Arab social democrats announce international partnership
Committee to establish an Arab social democratic forum aimed at training and aiding social democratic parties in the post-Arab Spring world
Tense anniversary of Tunisia’s first free elections
The anniversary of Tunisia’s historic elections comes at a time of heightened political tensions between the ruling coalition and the opposition.
Anti-government demo in Tunis on poll anniversary eve
Supporters of the leftist coalition the Popular Front shouted slogans such as: “The people want to regime to fall!” and “Jobs, freedom, dignity!”
Tunisia sets dates for polls after compromise
Elections scheduled for 23 June, 7 July 2013
Tunisia govt responsible for police impunity: lawyer
Tunisia govt responsible for police impunity
Tunisia Islamist chief vows crackdown on Salafists
Ghannouchi said that from now on the security forces would deal firmly with any breaches of public order.
US withdraws embassy staff from Sudan and Tunisia
Yemen and Sudan refuse deployment of Marines
Tunisian journalists protest government appointed directors
âWe donât want police mentality in our newspaperâ
Tunisians protest torture after man dies in police station
Ennahda party criticised for failing to fulfill torture abolition promises
Protests against corruption in Tunisia
“Ekbes” group organises protest, calls for cleansing Tunisia’s institutions
Struggling Egyptian fishermen violate regional waters
Egyptian fishermen continue escaping life conditions through water
Tunisian Islamists take to the streets
Friday protests demand greater action against old regime
Tunisian President affirms womenâs rights, criticises coalition partner
Marzouki slams Ennahda, affirms his commitment to women’s rights
Former Presidential Advisor faces Military Tribunal in Tunisia
Trial symbolizes an affront to freedom of expression and fair trials
Tunisian Salafists shutdown ‘un-Islamic’ events
Salafists protest against cultural events deemed as ‘un-Islamic’
Tunisia constitution date set
Tunis (AFP) â Tunisia’s new constitution will not be adopted before February 2013, the head of the drafting committee said on Tuesday, after earlier announcing that it would be delayed until April. “I believe that in all reality there can be no final reading of the constitution before February 2013,” Habib Kheder, who is also …
Thousands of women marched in Tunis to protest constitutional amendment
Roughly 6,000 protesters, mostly female, took to the streets of Tunis
Tunisians protest lack of change since revolution
Six protesters injured in anti-government protest in Sidi Bouzid
Tunisian bill set to criminalise âvalues-based offencesâ
Rights group: “The draft bill would provide prison terms and fines for broadly worded offenses such as insulting or mocking the ‘sanctity of religion'”
‘Cairo Declaration’ to create free-travel zone
The deal allows free-travel between the first three North African states to successfully toppled their entrenched governments