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Tunisia: Vegetable seller sparks protests
Mohamed Bouazizi starts selling vegetables. Police later seize his cart, he sets himself on fire and later dies. The act, following Wiki Leaks´¨publication of US criticisms of the regime, provokes young Tunisians to protest. -
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The Arab Spring in Tunisia
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Tunisia: President vows to punish protesters
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali appears on television stating that ´´ the law will be applied with all firmness ´´ to protesters -
Tunisia: Protests Continue
Protesters clash with police and set Fire to cars in several Tunisian cities. Security responds violently. -
Tunisia: Ben Ali Flees
Tunisian president bows to protest and flees to Saudi Arabia. -
Tunsia: Pm resigns amid arrest
Mohamed Ghannouchi resigns as the Prime Minister for the post-revolution goverment amid further clashes between police and protesters. -
Tunisia:Ousted Presidents Party Dissolved.
A Tunisian court rules that the party of the former preside, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, be dissolved, trigerring street celebrations as one of the last vestiges of the ousted leader´s era is dismantled. -
Osama Bin Laden Praises Arab Spring Uprises
A tape recorded by OsamaBin Laden is realesed posthumously onto islamist militant website. It praises the Arab Spring movements and predicts they will spread. -
Tunisia: General Election Prosponed to October
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Tunisia: Former President Sentenced to 35 Years in Jail
Former Tunisian president and his wife sentenced to 35 years in jail after beung found guilty od theft in absentia by a Tunisian court. -
Tunisia: Voters go to the Poll
People queue to vote as candidates from 110 parties and scores of independents contest the Arab Spring´s first election. -
Tunisia:Democraticlly elected assembly holds inaugural session
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Tunisia: Moncef Marzouki becomes President
Tunisia´s constitutional assembly elects former activist, who returned from exile in France after Fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
