[image: The ambulance carrying the body of the Tunisian opposition Chokri Belaid is surrounded demonstrators in Tunis, on 6 February 2013.]
The ambulance carrying the body of the Tunisian opposition Chokri Belaid is surrounded demonstrators in Tunis, on 6 February 2013. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID *Crime Scene: **http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=487775144614731* *Rally outside the clinic: ** http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=476145915778080** Streaming Tunis, where thousands of people gathered outside the Interior Ministry, Avenue Bourguiba: **http:// www.ustream.tv / channel / tuniscope<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tuniscope> * * *<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fwYcTzqQBS8/URJJ404BWUI/AAAAAAAAOgo/LO_uV0TaZwo/s1600/Indices+Bela%C3%AFd.JPG> Monday, Chokri Belaid denounced the decision to extend the state of emergency until March 3. It is difficult not to establish a link between this statement and the assassination. ------------- Secular party threatens to quit Islamist-led Tunisian government<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/63974/World/Region/Secular-party-threatens-to-quit-Islamistled-Tunisi.aspx> Tunisia's Ennahda-led coalition wrangles on overdue reshuffle<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/63959/World/Region/Tunisias-Ennahdaled-coalition-wrangles-on-overdue-.aspx> ------------------------------ Tunisian opposition leader killed after warning of political assassinations A picture taken on 29 December 2010 shows Tunisian lawyer and human rights activist Choukri Belaid speaking as he attends a meeting along with other lawyers in Tunis to express their solidarity with the residents of Sidi Bouzid. Belaid, a senior leader in Tunisia's left-leaning opposition Democratic Patriots party, was shot dead on 6 February 2013 in the morning, his brother told AFP. AFP PHOTO/FETHI BELAID Published Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead Wednesday morning, a day after he had said that the leading Islamist party Ennahda had "given the green light for political assassinations." His warning was broadcast on the Tunisian Nessma TV. Belaid, a left-leaning politician and a harsh critic of the Tunisian government, was shot dead Wednesday morning as he left his home in Tunis, his family said. "My brother was assassinated. I am desperate and depressed," Abdelmajid Belaid, brother of the dead leader, told AFP. "I accuse ... [Ennahda leader] Rached Ghannouchi of assassinating my brother," he said. Ennahda is an Islamist party currently leading the Tunisian government in a coalition with two other parties. Belaid was seen as the party's top critic. The wife of the opposition leader, speaking to Radio Mosaique, said he had been hit by two bullets as he left his home, however what happened at the time of the incident has not been confirmed. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali denounced Wednesday the murder of Belaid as an "act of terrorism" against Tunisia. "This is a criminal act, an act of terrorism not only against Belaid but against the whole of Tunisia," Jebali from the ruling Islamist Ennahda party told FM Radio Mosaique, promising to pursue all efforts to "immediately" arrest the murderer. Chokri Belaid was one of the top six "worldwide trending topics" on Twitter at the time of the writing of this article. Many are calling this the first political assassination since the revolution. Belaid's party was part of a coalition of parties which has emerged in opposition to the Tunisia government. The country is witnessing a rise in violence fed by political and social discontent more than two years after the toppling of the former dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Several opposition parties and trade unions have accused the pro-Islamists of orchestrating clashes or attacks against them. *(AFP, Al-Akhbar)* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
