Martyr's Day in Tunis turns violent as running battles ensue

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People shouting "We're not afraid, the people are here", as demonstrators began running up Habib Bourguiba Avenue.

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Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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An injured demonstrator.

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A man wears an Anonymous mask.

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People shouting "We're not afraid, the people are here", as demonstrators began running up Habib Bourguiba Avenue.

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People shouting "We're not afraid, the people are here", as demonstrators began running up Habib Bourguiba Avenue.

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People shouting "We're not afraid, the people are here", as demonstrators began running up Habib Bourguiba Avenue.

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Tunisian flag rised high at the demonstration.

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A woman holds a tear gas canister.

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Women were present in the demonstration.

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A woman putting anti-tear gas liquid on a fellow demonstrators' eyes.

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A demonstrator runs, covered in a Tunisian flag.

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Police running after the demonstrators.

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Tear gas was fired. Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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Police waiting for orders.

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Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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A protester cries after being hit on the leg.

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Protesters were blocked from reaching Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, by police, and running clashes erupted for several hours in the side streets leading to the avenue.

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A police officer arrests a demonstrator.

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The demonstartors are runinng because of the tear gas.

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Tear gas.

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Demonstrator is shouting.

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Tunisian police disperse a protest held in the main square in the capital to honor the deaths of the country's struggles for freedom and protest against the Islamists Ennahda ruling party.