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By Tarek Amara
TUNIS (Reuters) – Dozens of Tunisian activists and journalists on Monday staged a small protest against a planned visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the badbadination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Tunisia is one of the few Arab states where protests are allowed, following an uprising that overthrew veteran leader Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and instituted freedom of expression. expression and freedom of the press. 19659003] The Saudi Crown Prince should arrive Tuesday as part of a tour in several Arab countries, his first trip abroad since the badbadination of Khashoggi, which put a strain on the ties of Saudi Arabia with the West and tarnished its image abroad.
Tunisian human rights groups, including the journalists' union, called for a demonstration on Habib Bourguiba's central avenue in Tunis, the scene of mbad protests that toppled Ben Ali in 2011 [1. 9659003] They waved pamphlets asking "The freedom of Saudi women" or "Bin Salman, you are the murderer number 1."
"The Tunisian revolution … can not accept to receive (bin Salman) and allow him to clean himself (with his visit) of a murder, "told reporters Soukaina Abdessamad of the Journalists' Union." We will hold demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday. "
Saudi Arabia has declared that the Crown Prince did not know of the murder of the Washington Post columnist at the Riyadh consulate in Istanbul last month.
After many contradictory explanations, Riyadh stated that Khashoggi had ty killed and his body dismembered when negotiations to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia had failed.
Since the 2011 uprising that ended the Ben Ali regime and triggered the Arab Spring protests that rocked the region, Tunisia has become one of the few Arab countries where protests are allowed.
(Report by Tarek Amara, writing by Ulf Laessing, Gareth Jones edition)
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