The Tunisia uprising's 'man with a cage'
Thursday 10 December 2020 Tunis - On January 14, 2011, Wadii Jelassi heard that a protest was under way in central Tunis. There were risks in attending mass street protests against the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled Tunisia with an iron fist since 1987. But the young, unemployed Wadii Jelassi and his friends had an axe to grind: the notorious Trabelsi family, Ben Ali's in-laws, were accused of stealing land in the neighbourhood. Wadii Jelassi is from Ennahli, a forested area on the edge of the Tunisian capital, where wealthy residences have nibbled away at p...
Source: afp.com
