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Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Tuesday against the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince, accusing the Saudi royal king of murder on the second consecutive day of protests condemning the badbadination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, heir to the throne of the world's largest oil exporter, left Cairo on Tuesday and was due to travel to Tunis in the late afternoon for a tour of the Arab States that also took him to Bahrain. and the United Arab Emirates.
The badbadination of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the crown prince, at the Riyadh consulate in Istanbul six weeks ago has strained the ties between Saudi Arabia and the West and has tarnished the image of the brand. of Prince Mohammed abroad.
Saudi Arabia said the prince had no prior knowledge of the killing. After offering many contradictory explanations, Riyadh said last month that Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered when negotiations to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia failed.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Central Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis, the scene of mbad protests that toppled Ben Ali in 2011.
They chanted "The murderer is not welcome in Tunisia" and "The shame of Tunisian leaders" for receiving bin Salman.
The journalists placed a huge banner in front of their union showing the prince with a saw, which, according to Turkish sources, would have been used to dismember Khashoggi in Istanbul. Dozens of Tunisian human rights activists and journalists on Monday staged a smaller protest.
Nourredine Ben Ticha, advisor to Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, said last week that the truth about the badbadination of the Saudi journalist should be established, but that the incident should not be used to harm the stability of the kingdom.
Tunisia and Saudi Arabia have very different political systems. The kingdom is an absolute monarchy while the North African country has undergone a democratic transition since 2011.
Tunisia has been organizing since free elections and adopted in 2014 a constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights such as freedom of expression.
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