Tunisian police clashed with angry youth for a second night on Sunday, after protests erupted in several cities including some districts of the capital Tunis and the coastal city of Sousse.
Demonstrators had on Saturday blocked roads with burning tyres, scuffled with police and attempted to vandalise banks and shops, according to a spokesman of the interior ministry quoted by the official news agency. Police said at least 240 people had been arrested on Saturday. The explosion of fury was sparked by the alleged mistreatment of a shepherd by a policeman in the northern town of Siliana.
The protests in at least ten Tunisian cities come as the country marks the tenth anniversary of the popular revolution that ousted dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, ushering in a new democratic era and sparking off a string of similar uprisings across the Arab world. Most of these revolts ultimately failed and Tunisia remains the only country in the region considered to have had a…