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  • The ‘slow coup’ taking Tunisia back to autocracy

    The ‘slow coup’ taking Tunisia back to autocracy

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    [ad_1] On a current Ramadan day in April, simply earlier than sunset when Muslims break their quick, dozens of Tunisian policemen swooped on the house of Rachid Ghannouchi, chief of the nation’s largest political get together and took the 81-year-old man to jail. Ghannouchi, the previous speaker of parliament and head of the reasonably Islamist…