{"id":21049,"date":"2025-12-14T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/tunisias-political-opposition-protest-against-president-kais-saied\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:12","slug":"tunisias-political-opposition-protest-against-president-kais-saied","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tunisias-political-opposition-protest-against-president-kais-saied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s political opposition protest against President Kais Saied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">The groups <\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">took to the<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0s<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">treets\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">yesterday<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0in a rare show of unity<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">,\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">demanding an end to one-man rule and the restoration<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">of democracy.<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">The protest followed three weeks of demonstrations against what they describe as unprecedented<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">crackdown on critics.<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">Hundreds marched through the capital\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">Tunis,\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">carrying portraits of<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">jailed politicians, journalists and activists, turning the<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">protests into a weekly showdown between Saied and his opponents.<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">Rights groups say Saied has eroded freedoms and turned<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-us\">Tunisia into an &#8220;open-air prison&#8221; since taking extraordinarypowers in 2021 and ruling by decree<\/span><span xml:lang=\"en-za\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21050,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-21049","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Activists and opposition\u00a0figures from across Tunisia's political spectrum\u00a0have joined forces in protest against President Kais Saied","published_date":"2025-12-14 00:00:00","news_description":"Activists and opposition\u00a0figures from across Tunisia's political spectrum\u00a0have joined forces in protest against President Kais Saied","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24863,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21049\/revisions\/24863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}