tunisian women protest

Police beat demonstrators with batons and fired teargas at them during a protest on 9 April on Avenue Habib Bourguiba by around a thousand people, defying the ban on protests on the capital's main thoroughfare.... In January 2012, two women journalists Sana Farhat and Maha Ouelhezi were physically assaulted by plainclothes police in Tunis as they were covering a demonstration organised by university teachers calling for academic freedom outside the Ministry...


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Tunisian Woman

Since Monday, I have spoken to Tunisians, in person and online, to find out more about the background to the protests and to ascertain how much support there is "on the street" for the protesters. First, though, the official explanation for why the protest was broken... I was particularly taken by a group from the Organisation for Women and Progress: I recognised myself in them and they won my sympathy. I set against this conclusion also that I SAW plainsclothes thugs...
Tunisia: martyrs' day violence, why and what's next? | openDemocracy

The peaceful protest drew people from a wide range of ages and social backgrounds who rallied around calls for Tunisia to keep a progressive, pluralist identity. Originally organized to mark International Women's Day, the...
tunisian women protest