In Tunisia, protesters gathered outside the Tunisian interior ministry on Monday to call for the arrest of officials who had abused and tortured Tunisians during the reign of dictator Ben Ali, who was ousted last month after a popular uprising.

Sufyan Trabelsi: “Our first demand is that the interior ministry be cleansed, because it oversaw torture against Tunisians. A lot of the people in the ministry should be sentenced for killing our people, people like Muqazza [an official at the ministry], who have killed our people. Our second demand is that political powers in this country are all represented in this government. We are against the marginalization of political powers in this government.”

In related news, a United Nations team said today that 219 people died last month in Tunisia during the protests which toppled the government.