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TUNIS: Tunisian lawyers protested and launched a nationwide strike on Monday over the arrest of a lawyer and political commentator in a weekend police raid.
“The strike was observed 100 percent,” Laroussi Zguir, head of the bar association’s Tunis division, told journalists at the Tunis court of first instance.
Several rallied outside the court against the arrest of commentator and lawyer Sonia Dahmani, demanding her immediate release and chanting that the judiciary is working “under orders”.
Masked police on Saturday raided the bar association headquarters in the capital Tunis, where Dahmani had sought refuge after she refused to appear in court over comments she had made on television.
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