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TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: People rallied in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in front of the Interior Ministry to protest against the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.

Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutionary movement, was plunged into a new political crisis on Thursday when assassins shot Mohamed Brahmi, 58, leader of the Arab nationalist People’s Party, an opposition party leader outside his home in a hail of gunfire.

The assassination, which coincided with celebrations for the 56th anniversary of Tunisian statehood after independence from France, came as Tunisia was still grappling with a democratic transition following the January 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s autocratic leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and forced him into exile. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that spawned similar uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

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TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: People rallied in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in front of the Interior Ministry to protest against the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br /> <br /> Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutionary movement, was plunged into a new political crisis on Thursday when assassins shot Mohamed Brahmi, 58, leader of the Arab nationalist People’s Party, an opposition party leader outside his home in a hail of gunfire.<br /> <br /> The assassination, which coincided with celebrations for the 56th anniversary of Tunisian statehood after independence from France, came as Tunisia was still grappling with a democratic transition following the January 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s autocratic leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and forced him into exile. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that spawned similar uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.