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July 20, 2011

Daily Star: Tunisia’s main Islamist party Ennahda denies it is behind recent riots throughout country

by Staff
The Daily Star

TUNIS: The leader of Tunisia’s main Islamist political party Tuesday denied any responsibility for the wave of violent protests in the capital and other cities in recent days.

Violence in Tunis and elsewhere, seen by the government as the work of Islamist youths, has claimed the life of one teenaged boy and shaken the country six months after the revolution that toppled Tunisia’s autocratic president.

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