Pro-Democracy Tunisian Unions Protest Escalating Crackdown

April 06, 2023 00:03:09
Pro-Democracy Tunisian Unions Protest Escalating Crackdown
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Pro-Democracy Tunisian Unions Protest Escalating Crackdown

Apr 06 2023 | 00:03:09

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Show Notes

  For the second time this year a leader of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) was arrested, this time for suspicion of insulting a public official at a protest outside the country’s Ministry of Culture building. The arrest of the UGTT’s secretary for culture, Abdel Nasser Ben Amara last month—who has since been acquitted […]

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