(ANSA) – TUNIS, JUL 23 – The Tunisian Journalists’ Union (Snjt) denounced the behavior of the police yesterday during a civil society demonstration in Tunis against the constitutional referendum, calling it “a heinous crime against democracy that cannot be justified in any way “. At the end of the demonstration, in fact, a group of activists and journalists who were approaching the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior on the Avenue Bourguiba was forcibly blocked by the police, with injuries and some arrested.
The union accused the Interior Ministry, “which ordered” these attacks “and called on the judicial authorities to assume their responsibilities and to open an investigation into the arbitrary security practices that have affected dozens of Tunisians, causing them serious physical and psychological damage “.
The union also expresses “its firm condemnation of the police repression policy that targeted the demonstrators and of the anti-democratic mechanisms adopted by the power in place that will only fuel the anger towards the security institution and aggravate the crisis between citizens and the state “. The president of the newspaper union, Mehdi Jelassi, was also the victim of a police attack while taking part in a demonstration yesterday against the July 25 referendum and had to be treated on the spot by the fire brigade. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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