Film screening sparks TV HQ attack

Tunisian police have arrested dozens of Islamist demonstrators set on attacking the offices of a television channel that had shown the award-winning film 'Persepolis', officials said.

The assault is the latest in a rise in attacks against perceived symbols of secularism by hardcore Muslims in Tunisia ahead of this month’s election. Once suppressed by the former regime, conservative Muslims are increasingly making themselves heard in the country’s politics.