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Tunisia publishes images of suspects in secular leader's killing

April 13, 2013 12:00
TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian government on Saturday published the names and photographs of five people it said were suspected of involvement in the February assassination of a secular politician and asked citizens to help track them down. The killing of Chokri Belaid on February 6 provoked the worst unrest in the North African state since the overthrow of strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali two years ago that launched the Arab Spring wave of popular uprisings.

Tunisian police clash with hardline Islamists, one killed

April 11, 2013 21:00
By Tarek Amara Tunis (Reuters) - Police fired on Islamists attacking a police station in a southern Tunisian town, killing one person, a security source said, in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the North African country. Hundreds of Salafists - followers of a puritanical interpretation of Islam - protested in front of the police station in Hergla on Thursday after officers arrested some of their comrades who had attacked alcohol sellers in the city, police and witnesses said.

Tunisian Islamists rally in show of strength

February 9, 2013 11:30
* Rally comes day after funeral of opposition leader * Demonstration dwarfed by Friday's against Islamists * Tunisia rebukes French minister for comments By Tarek Amara and Alistair Lyon TUNIS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of Islamists marched in Tunis on Saturday in a show of strength a day after the funeral of an assassinated secular politician drew the biggest crowds seen on the streets since Tunisia's uprising two years ago.

Clashes as tens of thousands mourn Tunisia politician

February 8, 2013 16:00
Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters on Friday as tens of thousands joined the funeral of opposition leader Chokri Belaid whose murder plunged Tunisia into new post-revolt turmoil. Skirmishes erupted on the margins of the funeral procession which turned into a demonstration in Tunis, a city paralysed by a general strike called in protest at Wednesday's assassination of the leftist leader. The interior ministry said 132 people were arrested and estimated the size of the funeral crowd at 40,000.

Tunisia Salafist chief warns Ennahda against compromise

February 8, 2013 15:45
A wanted Tunisian Salafist leader has urged the ruling Islamists against making concessions to secular parties, warning that to do so would be "political suicide," a US-based monitoring group said on Friday. "We stress this to the Ennahda movement... that conceding and prostrating in such a decisive moment in our country's history will be political suicide," said Abu Iyadh, who heads the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia.

Ruling Islamists split over deepening Tunisia crisis

February 7, 2013 15:45
Tunisia's ruling Islamists Thursday rejected plans by the premier to form a government of technocrats while the main trade union called a general strike amid renewed unrest, deepening a crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition leader. With tensions running high since the murder Wednesday of a leftist opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, clashes between police and protesters broke out in the capital and in a central town, AFP correspondents said.

Ruling Islamists split over deepening Tunisia crisis

February 7, 2013 13:45
Tunisia's ruling Islamists Thursday rejected plans by the premier to form a government of technocrats while the main trade union called a general strike amid renewed unrest, deepening a crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition leader. With tensions running high since the murder Wednesday of a leftist opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, clashes between police and protesters broke out in the capital and in a central town, AFP correspondents said.

Ruling Islamists split over deepening Tunisia crisis

February 7, 2013 12:01
Tunisia's ruling Islamists Thursday rejected plans by the prime minister to form a government of technocrats while the main trade union called a general strike amid renewed unrest, deepening a crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition leader. With tensions running high since the murder Wednesday of a leftist opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, clashes between police and protesters broke out in the capital and in a central town, AFP correspondents said.

Ruling Islamists split over deepening Tunisia crisis

February 7, 2013 12:00
Tunisia's ruling Islamists Thursday rejected plans by the prime minister to form a government of technocrats while the main trade union called a general strike amid renewed unrest, deepening a crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition leader. With tensions running high since the murder Wednesday of a leftist opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, clashes between police and protesters broke out in the capital and in a central town, AFP correspondents said.

France's Hollande says concerned by rising Tunisia violence

February 6, 2013 07:45
PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande condemned the shooting of a prominent Tunisian opposition figure on Wednesday, saying he was concerned by the rise of violence in France's former colony. Shokri Belaid, a staunch secular opponent of the moderate Islamist-led government, died in hospital after being shot in the capital Tunis, exacerbating tensions between Islamists and secularists that have risen since the Islamist Ennahda Movement won an election in October 2011.
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