02/09/2015
Tunisia fears its Arab Spring could be reversed as the new regime becomes as intolerant ...
The crowd does not get far. In Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, authorities are increasingly disdainful of dissent. ?There are many thieves in Tunisia and we are sick of it,? says Nawres Daboussi, 19, surrounded by police in the courtyard outside the headquarters of the Tunisian General Labour Union in Tunis. ?This law is really ridiculous; it makes a mockery of the fact that we had a revolution in the first place,? the student adds, before going back to join her fellow protesters. ?Resistance, resistance, no reconciliation!? they chant, pressing up against the police barrier. Tunisia was once widely hailed as the only success story of the Arab Spring. On 14 January 2011, its...
