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Unrest in Tunisia: More clashes as protesters demand broader purge Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was driven from power this month by violent protests in the "Jasmine Revolution."
Jan. 27, 2011
Protesters from Tunisia's marginalized rural heartlands chant slogans during a demonstration outside the prime minister's office in Tunis. The prime minister appointed independents to three key posts in the country's new interim Cabinet, removing ministers from the former ruling party in a major concession to demonstrators.
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Jan. 27, 2011
Tunisian protesters pull at barbed wire to let other protesters through a police barricade near government offices in Tunis.
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Jan. 27, 2011
Tunisian army soldiers attempt to lead a protester away from the prime minister's office. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled Tunisia for 23 years, was driven from power by the anti-government protesters on Jan. 14 and fled to Saudi Arabia.
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Jan. 27, 2011
An inhabitant of the central Tunisian region of Sidi Bouzid wraps his shoe with a fabric featuring an image of ousted president Ben Ali during a protest.
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Jan. 27, 2011
A protester chants slogans during a demonstration in Tunis. The government says 78 civilians were killed, many shot by police, in nearly a month of protests over unemployment, corruption and repression that eventually forced Ben Ali to flee.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Residents from the central Tunisian regions of Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine protest Wednesday in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in Tunis. Riot police tear-gassed protesters who rallied in the main government quarter after some of them tried to break through a barrier.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Residents from the central Tunisian regions of Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine protest in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in Tunis. Protesters are calling for figures linked to ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's regime to be removed from the new government and for his powerful RCD party to be disbanded. Tunisia issued an international arrest warrant for Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after resigning this month amid protests against his regime.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Protesters clash with riot police near government offices in the Casbah, the old city of Tunis. Demonstrators confronted Tunisian police as days of peaceful demands for a purge of former regime loyalists in an interim government descended into violence.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Protesters help an injured man during a clashes near government offices in the Casbah, the old city of Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A policeman at the Justice palace in Tunis holds tear-gas shells during clashes with locals of the central Tunisia region of Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine. Tunisia issued an international arrest warrant for ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Residents from the central Tunisian regions of Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine protest on Jan. 26 in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A man walks away from tear gas during clashes with security forces in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in Tunis. Ghannouchi, who took the post in 1999 under then-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, has vowed to quit politics after elections in the coming months, but he insists on staying for the time being in order to help guide Tunisia toward democracy.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A protester throws stones at riot police during clashes near government offices in Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A wounded protester is treated at the Aziza Othmana hospital after clashes in Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A wounded protester is carried away after clashes in Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
A protester chants slogans as he holds a riot police shield during clashes in Tunis.
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Jan. 26, 2011
Wounded protesters are evacuated after clashes in Tunis.
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Jan. 24, 2011
Inhabitants of the central Tunisia region of Sidi Bouzid, who slept overnight by a building near the Tunisian prime minister's office, call for the government to resign. Many protesters made their way to the capital from the impoverished rural parts of Tunisia where the uprising began and held up pictures of victims of Ben Ali's bloody crackdown in recent weeks.
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Jan. 24, 2011
A schoolgirl wipes a tear from her face outside her school in Tunis. Teachers across Tunisia were on strike to demand members of the former party of the ousted president stay out of power, on the day schools were set to reopen after weeks of closure amid street protests.
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Jan. 23, 2011
Inhabitants of the central Tunisia region of Sidi Bouzid chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the government palace in Tunis.
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Jan. 22, 2011
Youths gather around candles in Tunis. Tunisians began three days of mourning Friday, lowering flags and broadcasting recitations of the Koran to mourn dozens who died in protests that drove their autocratic leader from power.
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Jan. 20. 2011
Protesters in Tunis rally against former members of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party. The demonstration in front of the party's headquarters took place as a sign bearing the party's name was dismantled. The RCD was founded by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power.
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Jan. 20. 2011
A protester holds a mock coffin with RCD written on it during a demonstration in front of RCD party headquarters in Tunis.
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Jan. 20. 2011
A spectator points toward the army pulling down the RCD party headquarters sign in Tunis.
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Jan. 20. 2011
A woman joins demonstrators gathered outside RCD party headquarters in Tunis.
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Jan. 20, 2011
Protesters stand off against a line of riot police during a demonstration in downtown Tunis. Police fired shots into the air on Thursday to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers associated with the rule of ousted president Ben Ali leave the government. The protesters, who had gathered outside the central Tunis headquarters of the RCD, Tunisia's ruling party for several decades, refused to move back when the police fired shots from behind a metal fence.
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Jan. 20, 2011
Protestors kiss soldiers during a demonstration against Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) in a new wave of anger about the presence of RCD stalwarts in the transitional government. Tunisian authorities arrested 33 members of Ben Ali's family as protesters rallied again Thursday to demand the rooting out of the dictator's former ruling party.
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Jan. 20, 2011
People give flowers to soldiers outside RCD party headquarters in Tunis. Demonstrators have criticized the country's new unity government for being mostly made up of old-guard politicians from the RCD, which was founded by ousted president Ben Ali.
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Jan. 20, 2011
A protester gestures in front of the RCD headquarters during a demonstration.
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Jan. 20, 2011
Protesters are startled by shots fired into the air by police.
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Jan. 20, 2011
Walid Bouazizi prays on his cousin Mohamed Bouazizi's grave in Sidi Bouzid. Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old college graduate forced to sell fruit and vegetables to make a living, set himself on fire on Dec. 17 to protest the seizure of his stand by police. His suicide prompted a wave of protests against Ben Ali's regime and ultimately brought down the dictator.
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Jan. 20, 2011
A demonstration outside the RCD party headquarters.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Protesters chant slogans as riot police stand guard during a demonstration in downtown Tunis. Tunisia's new coalition government hit trouble on Tuesday, with three ministers quitting and an opposition party threatening to walk out in protest at the presence of members of the party of the ousted president.
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Jan. 18, 2011
A demonstrator tries to catch a tear gas canister during a protest in Tunis.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Riot police officers hit a protester after a demonstration against Ben Ali's party in the center of Tunis.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Demonstrators clash with Tunisian security forces on Rome Avenue in Tunis.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Protesters in Tunis hold bread as they face riot police during a demonstration against the RDC, the party of Ben Ali.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Tunisian opposition figure Moncef Markouzi celebrates as he is welcomed by supporters, after arriving at the international airport of Tunis.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Tunisians demonstrate on Rome Avenue in Tunis. Riot police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters at a small rally against Tunisia's new government in the center of the capital. About 100 protesters chanted slogans against the RCD party. "We can live on bread and water alone but not with the RCD," they said. Riot police dispersed the rally -- one of several expected on Tuesday.
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Jan. 18, 2011
Tunisian riot police disperse demonstrators on Rome Avenue.
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Jan. 17, 2011
Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi heads to a news conference at his office in Tunis. Ghannouchi appointed opposition figures to a new unity government on Monday, trying to establish political stability after violent street protests brought down the president last Friday. He said that the government was committed to releasing all political prisoners and that anyone with great wealth or suspected of corruption would face investigation.
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Jan. 17, 2011
Tunisia's acting president, Foued Mebazaa, kisses a woman at the government palace in Tunis. The woman arrived at the palace to ask the president to help her find a house.
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Jan. 17, 2011
Protesters in Tunis cheer a soldier during a demonstration against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Jan. 17, 2011
A soldier keeps watch for snipers on the rooftops in downtown Tunis.
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Jan. 16, 2011
A man walks in the looted house of Mouez Trabelsi, the nephew of the former president's wife, Leila Ben Ali, in Marsa 12 miles north of Tunis. Tunisians cheering a new era after the authoritarian president fled the country are especially overjoyed at the prospect of life without his wife and her family, whom they consider a symbol of corruption and excess.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Demonstrators shout slogans in front of the Interior Ministry in Tunis after Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's address to the nation. Ben Ali said he would not seek another term in office and ordered police to stop firing on protesters as he sought to quell mounting unrest. Later, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannoushi went on state television to announce that he was assuming power.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Thousands of demonstrators from all walks of life mobbed the capital of Tunis to demand Ben Ali's ouster, the culmination of weeks of protests that have swept the country. Rights groups have said that at least 66 people have been killed in the government's response to the unrest.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Soldiers on an armored vehicle stand in front of demonstrators on in Tunis. Protesters have been fueled by pent-up anger at high unemployment and at a leadership many see as controlling and corrupt.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Demonstrators hold a board reading "Ben Ali get out " in Tunis. The 74-year-old leader tried vainly to hold on to power amid the riots, declaring a state of emergency Friday, dissolving the government and promising new legislative elections within six months. On Thursday night he went on television to promise not to run for re-election in 2014 and slashed prices on key foods such as sugar, bread and milk.
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Jan. 14, 2011
"No to Ben Ali, the uprising continues!" hundreds shouted in a march down the main boulevard in central Tunis. Friday produced the largest demonstrations in generations. Police repeatedly clashed with protesters, some of whom climbed the walls of the Interior Ministry.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Protesters chant slogans against Ben Ali in Tunis. In announcing that he was assuming power, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannoushi did not say anything about a coup or about the army being in charge, saying only that he was taking over while the president is "temporarily indisposed."
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Jan. 14, 2011
A protester faces police officers in Tunis. The shakeup was certain to have repercussions in the Arab world and beyond, as a sign that even a leader as entrenched and powerful as Ben Ali could be brought down by massive public outrage.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Tunisian demonstrators hold up their hands as if they are handcuffed.
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Jan. 14, 2011
A demonstrator throws a rock during clashes with security forces. Helmeted police were seen kicking and clubbing unarmed protesters, the Associated Press reported.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Smoke rises from fire left after clashes between security forces and demonstrators in Tunis. The official death toll in the riots is 23, but but opposition leaders put the figure at three times that. Clouds of tear gas and black smoke hung over the city's whitewashed buildings, and tour operators hurriedly evacuated thousands of tourists.
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Jan. 14, 2011
A Tunisian woman waves the national flag in front of the Interior Ministry.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Demonstrators express their displeasure with Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The 74-year-old leader came to power in a bloodless coup in 1987. He took over from a man called formally President-for-Life Habib Bourguiba, the founder of modern-day Tunisia who set the Muslim country on a pro-Western course after independence from France in 1956.
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Jan. 14, 2011
Maya Jeridi, general secretary of the opposition Progressive Democratic Party, shouts slogans in front the Interior Ministry.
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Jan. 14, 2011
A protester waves the Tunisian flag as he watches a demonstration against Ben Ali.
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Candles and dozens of flowers line the fence in front of the Embassy of Tunisia in Washington, D.C.
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