Tunisian police have arrested dozens of Islamists for an attempted attack on a TV station which had showed the award-winning film Persepolis. Officials said the activists had tried to set Nessma TV station alight after it broadcast the animation, which they deem to be blasphemous.
Police clashed with other Islamists who want a ban on women wearing the niqab at university lifted, reports say. The protests come ahead of elections for a constitutional assembly. The poll, in two weeks’ time, will be the first vote in Tunisia since long-time President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in an uprising in January.
Person | About | Day |
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نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
Read about it in today's Figaro
by Rea on Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:15 PM PDTReal shame !
I trust Tunisians to deal with them before it's too late.
Don't tell me I didn't warn you ! ...
by Darius Kadivar on Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:24 AM PDTTunisia could benefit from bitter lessons of Iran’s clumsy '79 revolution