Tunisians took to the streets on Saturday for a third straight week to protest against President Kais Saieds expanding crackdown on the opposition, critics and NGOs, urging the release of political prisoners.
Protests against Saied are growing as rights groups accuse him of using the judiciary and police to suppress opponents and to cement an autocratic one-man rule.
Last week, an appeals court handed jail terms of up to 45 years to dozens of opposition leaders, businesspeople and lawyers on charges of conspiracy to overthrow Saied, in what critics said was a sign of increasingly authoritarian rule.
