20120613 Press TV The Tunisian government has imposed an overnight curfew on the capital and seven other cities and suburbs in the wake of protests over an art exhibition in the North African country.
20120613 AFP Tunisian rioters detained after attacks blamed on ultra-conservative Islamists will be charged under anti-terror legislation, the government said Tuesday as it declared a nighttime curfew.
20120611 AFP A military court is set to hand down a verdict for ousted strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, charged over the deaths of 22 anti-government protesters during Tunisia's January 2011 revolution.
20120606 AFP A Tunisian journalist said Tuesday he launched a hunger strike on May 28 to defend press freedom after military police seized the cameras he used to film the trial of ousted leader Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
20120602 AFP Tunisian interior ministry officials said Friday they had banned a demonstration against Salafist extremism planned for this weekend, raising the prospect of fresh clashes on the streets.
20120528 AFP The Tunisian justice ministry has sacked 81 magistrates over suspicions of graft and their links to the ousted regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
20120528 AFP Hardline Islamists, who have been running rampage in Tunisian towns, torching police stations and attacking bars, have sparked an outcry against the authorities for their lax attitude in stemming the violence.
20120521 AFP Thousands of hardline Islamists, some in Afghan military garb and waving swords, converged Sunday in central Tunisia to rally for one of the country's most radical religious movements.
20120518 IRIB IRI's deputy science, research and technology minister for international affairs underlined development of Tehran-Tunis scientific and academic cooperation.
20120429 AFP A special review of the Tunisian media was boycotted Friday by journalists and others in an illustration of the ongoing mistrust between the nation's post-revolutionary leaders and the press.
20120429 AFP Scores of Tunisian magistrates protested on Friday before the constituent assembly to denounce a backlog of reforms that promised judges their independence.
20120422 AFP Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents highlights the region's desperate unemployment problem.
20120416 AFP Tunisia opened Saturday a national conference calling for justice for the victims of the Ben Ali regime, with its leaders saying that scores must be settled for reconciliation to begin.
20120414 AFP The exiled brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali regrets his role in the dictatorship and is prepared to face justice at home, news reports said Friday, quoting an open letter.
20120321 AFP Thousands of Tunisians gathered Tuesday in defence of liberty as they marked Independence Day amid fears of a widening divide between secular and religious groups in the newly democratised nation.
20120317 AFP Several thousand men and women demonstrated outside the Tunisian parliament on Friday to demand the inclusion of Islamic law in the north African country's future constitution.
20120313 AFP France on Monday detained a close aide to disgraced Tunisian former first lady Leila Trabelsi on an international arrest warrant in a corruption probe, an official close to the case said.
20120313 AFP Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous Internet freedom group posted video messages on Facebook pages of Tunisian Islamists, threatening reprisals over their efforts to introduce Salafist laws.
20120311 AFP Hundreds of Muslim women gathered near Tunis Saturday to call for the return of the caliphate, the defunct Islamic system of governance which they said was the only means of guaranteeing their rights.
20120310 AFP Several hundred people, many of them close to Tunisia's dominant Islamist Ennahda party, called for the state television's output to be cleaned up in a demonstration Friday outside its studios.
