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Tunisians protest on Arab spring anniversary

Thousands of Tunisians have protested against their Islamist-led government, exactly two years after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in a popular revolt that inspired uprisings across the Arab world.

More than 8000 secular demonstrators gathered outside the Interior Ministry on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, the same spot where mass protests forced veteran leader Ben Ali to accept his rule was over and flee the country on January 14, 2011, and sparking the Arab spring.

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