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Riots in Tunisia after opposition leader is assassinated Chokri Belaid, a leftist critic of the Islamist government, was shot dead Wednesday outside his home. Tunisia’s first such political assassination in decades has thrown the government and the country into turmoil, widening rifts between the dominant Islamist Ennahda party and its secular-minded foes.
Feb. 11, 2013
A woman stands next to a poster of assassinated leftist politician Chokri Belaid during a demonstration calling for Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and his cabinet to step down, at the National Constituent Assembly in Tunis. The words on the poster read, “The comrade martyr Chokri Beliad, Secretary-General of the Unified National Democratic Party.” A party led by interim President Moncef Marzouki said Monday it had “frozen” its withdrawal from Tunisia's coalition government while talks continue on a political crisis sharpened by the killing of the opposition politician.
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Young demonstrators carrying posters of assassinated politician Chokri Belaid shout during a demonstration calling for Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and his cabinet to step down at the National Constituent Assembly in Tunis.
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Feb. 8, 2013
Mourners carry the coffin of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid during his funeral procession in the Jebel Jelloud district of Tunis.
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Feb. 8, 2013
Tens of thousands of mourners chanted anti-Islamist slogans at the funeral of the secular opposition leader. Soldiers helped mourners carry Belaid’s coffin.
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Feb. 8, 2013
A couple mourns next to a Tunisian flag during Belaid’s funeral procession.
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Feb. 8, 2013
A protester gestures during clashes with riot police near the cemetery where Belaid is buried. The assassination of the opposition leader has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.
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Feb.8, 2013
Tunisian police officers beat a protester during a demonstration after Belaid’s funeral. Tunisian police fired tear gas at dozens of protesters in central Tunis and at the cemetery where Belaid was buried.
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Feb. 7, 2013
A relative of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid cries over his coffin at Belaid’s parents’ home near Tunis. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a nonpartisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of Belaid, a prominent leftist politician, is far from over.
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Feb. 7, 2013
Tunisians accompany the ambulance carrying Belaid’s body from his father's home in Tunis. Tunisia's opposition parties on Thursday welcomed the government's move to dissolve itself in favor of a caretaker body following the shocking assassination of the leftist politician. The assassination has plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011.
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Feb. 7, 2013
People react near Belaid’s coffin in Tunis.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Demonstrators burn Ennahda party documents outside its headquarters during a demonstration in Gafsa, Tunisia.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A Tunisian protester runs after police fired tear gas during a rally outside the Interior Ministry in Tunis after opposition leader and outspoken government critic Chokri Belaid was shot dead. The protesters amassed on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the epicenter of the 2011 uprising that ousted then-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A police officer fires a tear gas canister to disperse protesters in Tunis after Belaid’s assassination.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters gesture to the police during a demonstration in Tunis.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A demonstrator faces riot police officers in Tunis. Shaken by the assassination of a prominent leftist opposition leader that unleashed major protests, Tunisia’s prime minister announced Wednesday that he would form a new government of technocrats to guide the country to elections “as soon as possible,” the Associated Press reported.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A police officer readies tear gas to break up a protest during a demonstration in Tunis after the assassination of Belaid, a leading member of the Popular Front, a leftist political alliance, and a vocal critic of the Islamist Ennahda party, which leads Tunisia’s government.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A man crosses the street in Tunis as Tunisians protest the Belaid’s killing. In a recent television interview, Belaid accused the Islamist Ennahda party of giving a “green light” to political assassinations.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters in Tunis. Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunisia’s capital Wednesday, a day after he received the latest in a string of death threats and called for a national conversation on political violence.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Tunisian protesters and riot police outside the Interior Ministry in Tunis. President called on Tunisians to exercise “self-restraint, and not to be hasty in analyzing this crime and cowardly act or to blame one side or another for it.”
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration after the death of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid. In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Popular Front leaders drew attention to Belaid’s calls for a national conference to combat violence. The Front said Belaid “felt threats to his personal safety” and was warned by a colleague as late as Tuesday that “armed people are after him.”
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters clash with riot police in Tunis. The assassination of Chokri Belaid, an outspoken critic of Tunisia’s Islamist government, was the first in Tunisia since the uprising two years ago that ousted Ben Ali.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters confront riot police in Tunis. The Islamist Ennahda party issued a statement calling opposition leader Chokri Belaid’s death a “heinous” crime and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice, the Associated Press reported.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Belaid’s body is transferred amid a throng of supporters in Tunis after his assassination Wednesday.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters take to the streets in Tunis. Belaid’s assassination follows a growing pattern of political and religious violence in the country over the past two years.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Protesters gather as an ambulance adorned with a Tunisian flag carries Belaid’s body through Tunis.
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Feb. 6, 2013
A man reacts at the hospital after Belaid was shot to death in Tunis.
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