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Riot police have been deployed in large numbers to separate the groups in tunis.
Opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied have protested on the streets of the Capital Tunisaccusing him of using the judiciary and police to suppress critics, while his supporters have hero a counter-rally, highlighting a deepening political divide wracking the nation.
The anti-saed demonstration-The second opposition protest in a week-Reflects Growing Concern Among Human Rights Groups that the Birthplace of the Arab Spring is sliding towards an autocracy.
Demonstrators On the Capital’s main thoroughfare chanted slogans such as “saied go away, you are a dictator” and “the people want the fall of the regime,” a slogan that evoked the 2011 uprising – the first in the region in a year of tumult, and which toppled president Zine El abidine Ben Ali.
On the Same Street, Habib Bourguba Avenue, Saied’s Supporters Rallide in His Defense, Chanting, “No to Foreign Interference” and “The People Want Saied Again.”
Riot police have been deployed in large numbers to separate the groups. No clashes have been reported as or yet.
The demonstrations follow a months-long government crackdown on saed’s critics, including the detention last week of prominent lawyer ahmed salab, a fierce critic of the president.
On Thursday, the Anti-Saeid Protesters March From the headquarters of the administrative court, where salab had served as a judge before retiring and becoming a lawyer widely respected by all political parties.
They then joined other protesters in a square that is home to the headquarters of the powerful ugtt union, before heading towards Habib Bourguba Avenue.
Souab’s Arrest followed Prison sentences handed down last week to opposition leaders on conspiracy charges, drawing criticism from France, Germany, and the United Nations.
SAIED rejected the criticism, calling it a blatant interference in tunisia’s sovereignty.
The opposition accuses saied of undermining the democracy won in the 2011 revolution, since he seized extra powers in 2021 when he shut down the elected parliament and moved to rule by decree before assuming authority over the judiciary.
They described his move as a coup, while saied said it was legal and necessary to end chaos and rampant corruption.
The leaders of most political parties in Tunisia are in prison.
The Government says there is democracy in Tunisia. Saied says he will not be a dictator but insists that what he calls a corrupt elite must be held accountable.
