Tunisians protested Wednesday to demand the release of hundreds of young demonstrators arrested in several nights of disturbances, venting their anger also against the government’s handling of a deepening social crisis. Around 100 people rallied in Tunis and a similar number in the city of Sousse, in defiance of gatherings that have been forbidden by authorities following a recent surge in coronavirus cases. “We want the detainees to be freed,” the protesters cried in Sousse. In Tunis, protesters – many of them students – shouted slogans from the country’s 2011 revolution, including “freedom, …
