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Y'day and also today, despite massive police terror, tanks and curfews, the...

TUNISIAN PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION

...goes on!!

Here a brief summary of yesterday's "events" reported from the "front line":
 - Interior minister, Rafik Belhaj Kacem, dismissed.

- Prime minister announces release of all those arrested during recent protests.

- Heavy armed police units stormed the headquarter of the trade union (UGTT).

- Mass demo (aprox. 30,000) in Sfax, attacked by "security forces" with tear gas and life  ammunition.

 nn,n- Hatem Bettahar, assistant professor (a French citizen) shot dead – by a gov't sniper in Douz.  

- Protests in Hammamet (important tourist destination). At least one or more dead; police station burned.

- Ruling party headquarters in Dar Chaabane (Nabeul) on fire. 

- Army increasingly visible on the streets of Tunis and other cities.

- Hamma Hammami (Communist Workers' Party of Tunisia), arrested.

- Former political prisoner Lamari Ahmed arrested.

- Abdelwahhab Maatar, lawyer for rapper El Général, reportedly arrested.

- Headquarters of ruling party in Sfax said to be on fire.

- Curfew declared in Tunis and the suburbs from 8pm until 5.30am...

Related articles/reports:
☞ Deaths in Tunisia despite curfew (al-Jazeera, 1.13)
☞ Tunisia's youth finally has revolution on its mind (Guardian, 1.13)
☞ Tunisia: The Brink of Revolution (al-Bab, 1.11)