Warda Atiq News Today

Student union at heart of protests rocking Tunisia Warda Atiq, the secretary-general of LUnion générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET), told University World News that 50 members of UGET have been arrested and 32 remain in pre-trial detention. The first arrest was of Kais Schneiter, UGET’s representative in the southern region of Medenine, in mid-January, as protests sparked by alleged police brutality, economic woes and COVID-19 lockdowns gathered steam. UGET activist Ghafran Sfar told...