Ten years after the revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia, often hailed as its only success story, has yet to deliver the promised freedom, jobs and prosperity to its people.
Civil unrest erupted on 14 January 2021 across the country when the authorities announced a four-day strict lockdown, ordered by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, supposedly to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Yet many protesters branded it a ‘political lockdown’ because it coincided with the ten-year anniversary of the revolution. They saw it as a tactic to protect the government from mass protests after it failed to manage the ongoing crisis.
