Tunisia: Anger at Protest Ban on Main Street of Tunis
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This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011.
Tunisian netizens have expressed their anger at a ban on protesting on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, the capital's main street and the Tunisian equivalent of Cairo's Tahrir Square.
On March 28, 2012, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior banned any kind of protest, claiming complaints had been received from commercial and touristic businesses located on the avenue. Recently skirmishes between Islamists and liberals occurred when two protests took place at the same time on the same street.
Habib Bourguiba Avenue. Image by Flickr user Tab59 (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Slim Amamou, Tunisian blogger and former Secretary of State for Youth, tweeted:
He went on to call for a protest:
The blogger and Wikipedian Habib M'henni responded to Amamou's tweet saying:
Prominent blogger Azyz Amami, imprisoned during the Tunisian Revolution, also responded to Slim Amamou's tweet:
@Azyyoz: C'est pas la première fois qu'ils le font, ces salauds
Blogger Tounsiahourra reported that a vigil for Land Day had not been allowed:
This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011.
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