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In Tunisia, the regime of Kaïs Saïed takes a safe turn

2022-01-20T17:07:57.828Z


Police violence on January 14 caused the death of a demonstrator and many injuries, including journalists.


In Tunis

“He left his home on January 14

(anniversary of Ben Ali's flight, editor's note)

to celebrate the feast of the revolution. He greeted his daughters and his father. They waited for him for five days and he didn't come back. Today, they are saying goodbye to him before burying him

, ”said Samir Dilou, a former executive of the Islamist party Ennahdha, on Wednesday on social media. Ridha Bouziane died on Wednesday in a hospital in the capital. He had participated on Friday in a demonstration against President Kais Saied, who took full power this summer. The gathering of around a thousand demonstrators, banned because of Covid, was brutally repressed by the security forces. The opposition accuses the police of being responsible for the death.

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Ennahdha said in a statement released on Wednesday that the victim, a 57-year-old dentist member of its section of Sousse (150 km south of Tunis), "

died of an acute cerebral hemorrhage caused by severe violence...

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Source: lefigaro

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