Chokri Belaid

…assassination of a leftist politician, Chokri Belaid, in February 2013. Although the identity of Belaid’s killers remained unknown, the assassination touched off a political crisis. Secularists, increasingly convinced that they were the targets of an Islamist intimidation campaign, held mass demonstrations, and several members of the cabinet resigned their positions.…

…confirmed by the assassination of Chokri Belaid, a secularist politician, in February. In June the government unveiled a draft constitution that was immediately denounced by the opposition members of the National Constituent Assembly—the 217-member body charged with drafting a new constitution—who complained that compromises negotiated in the assembly had been…