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The anti-government demonstrations erupted following the death of a young man who had been injured and severely beaten by the Tunisian police in late November.<\/em><\/p>\n The past week saw a new wave of repression by the Tunisian authorities against protesters. At least 21 people<\/a> were arrested during anti-government demonstrations in the Kairouan region, which lasted a couple of days.<\/p>\n These protests erupted in Kairouan after young Tunisian citizen Naim Briki<\/a> died on Friday, December 12, due to severe…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The anti-government demonstrations erupted following the death of a young man who had been injured and severely beaten by the Tunisian police in late November. The past week saw a new wave of repression by the Tunisian authorities against protesters. At least 21 people were arrested during anti-government demonstrations in the Kairouan region, which lasted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391061:f6d1c634852240c8ff771b4dfac226a5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6414,7215,27304,28702,257,6321,5253,254,653,6932],"class_list":["post-217901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-authorities","tag-connected","tag-kairouan","tag-news","tag-people","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391061:f6d1c634852240c8ff771b4dfac226a5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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