Following the burial of a man who died from injuries sustained during demonstrations, protestors clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday.
Angry demonstrators were chanting against the police and throwing stones at them before riot police shot tear gas to disperse the crowds in Ettadamen and Intilka districts.
The fresh protests come as the country suffers an economic and political crisis amid fuel and food shortages.
The young man, Malek Selimi, 24, who was buried reportedly died after suffering a neck injury from a fall during a police chase at the end of August, his family confirmed.
Earlier on Saturday, two rival Tunisian opposition groups drew supporters from across the country in one of the biggest days of protest so far against the president, denouncing his autocratic posture to consolidate political power in spite of public anger over rising food prices and fuel shortages.
Some of the protesters in central Tunis chanted, “down, down”, “revolution against dictator Kais” and “the coup will fall”.
One of the marches was organised by the National Salvation Front, a coalition of opposition parties including the Islamist-inspired Ennahda that had dominated Tunisia’s parliament before its dissolution by Saied.Ali Laarayedh, Tunisia’s former prime minister and a senior Ennahda official said that the protest was an expression of “anger at the state of affairs under Kais Saied”.
