| 5,899,460 |
36.80803 |
10.09721 |
Tunisia |
|
Salafist-inspired protesters comprised mostly of unenrolled students staged a sit-in to demonstrate against a law preventing women from attending Manouba University--a secular, public school--wearing the niqab. The salafist protesters also demanded a place for prayer. |
| 5,899,464 |
36.81897 |
10.16579 |
Tunisia |
|
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, of the majority party Ennahda, appointed general directors and chief editors of the two national television channels and the state news agency, Tunis Africa Press (TAP). Jebali did not consult the National Union for Tunisian Journalists or the National Commission for the Reform of News and Communication, an independent advisory body set up after the old regime's ouster. |
| 5,899,468 |
36.80803 |
10.09721 |
Tunisia |
|
Salafist-inspired protesters comprised mostly of unenrolled students staged a sit-in to demonstrate against a law preventing women from attending Manouba University--a secular, public school--wearing the niqab. The salafist protesters also demanded a place for prayer. |
| 5,899,473 |
34.3827 |
8.15549 |
Tunisia |
|
Agricultural workers represented by the UGTT staged a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions as well as government nonintervention and neglect in the mining district of Gafsa. The strikers claim that they will close down Gafsa Phosphate Company if their demands are not met. No property was damaged. |
| 5,899,479 |
36.81897 |
10.16579 |
Tunisia |
|
Mohamed Taeb Youssefi was named president and chief executive of the state news agency TAP. The agency's journalists organized a sit-in yesterday in front of its offices in protest against his appointment. |
| 5,899,483 |
36.81897 |
10.16579 |
Tunisia |
|
More than 300 journalists and civil society members demonstrated yesterday outside the government headquarters in the Tunis Casbah to condemn police violence and oppose the recent appointment of new bosses of state media outlets. |
| 5,899,487 |
36.80803 |
10.09721 |
Tunisia |
|
Salafist-inspired protesters comprised mostly of unenrolled students staged a sit-in to demonstrate against a law preventing women from attending Manouba University--a secular, public school--wearing the niqab. The salafist protesters also demanded a place for prayer. |
| 5,899,492 |
36.81897 |
10.16579 |
Tunisia |
|
Journalists were attacked in Tunis, according to the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists, who criticized the attacks. |
| 5,899,497 |
34.3827 |
8.15549 |
Tunisia |
|
Agricultural workers represented by the UGTT staged a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions as well as government nonintervention and neglect in the mining district of Gafsa. The strikers claim that they will close down Gafsa Phosphate Company if their demands are not met. No property was damaged. |
| 5,899,501 |
36.80803 |
10.09721 |
Tunisia |
|
Salafist-inspired protesters comprised mostly of unenrolled students staged a sit-in to demonstrate against a law preventing women from attending Manouba University--a secular, public school--wearing the niqab. The salafist protesters also demanded a place for prayer. |
