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Tunisia: Curfew imposed as protests escalate
Rallies against high unemployment echo start of Arab Spring
Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
TUNISIA imposed a nationwide overnight curfew yesterday as protests over youth unemployment spread across the country.
In an echo of the 2010 popular uprising that heralded the start of the Arab Spring, a wave of unrest has rocked the country since the death of a young unemployed man on Sunday.
University graduate Ridha Yahyaoui was electrocuted in the city of Kasserine as he climbed an electricity pylon to protest at his rejection from a government job.
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