(MENAFN) (MENAFN) Tunisia on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of a revolution that saw the ouster of its autocratic leader, sparking the region-wide Arab Spring. But Tunisia's revolutionary spirit never died, and austerity seems to be breathing new life into it.
Thousands of people on Sunday thronged Habib Bourguiba Avenue in central Tunis to mark the end of longtime leader Zine El Abidine Ben Alis 24-year rule in 2011.
But although it was supposed to be a day of celebration honouring the country's hard-won freedoms it became a launchpad for yet another wave of protests against the government.
According to several media outlets, January 14, which began with red heart-shaped balloons and laughing children marching down Habib Bourguiba the epicentre of the 2011 demonstrations the night ended with police using teargas on at least a dozen youths in downtown Tunis and firing gas bombs on demonstrators in the city of Feriana, near the Algerian border.
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