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Salafists pray during a sit-in protest in front of the foreign ministry in Tunis Nov. 9, 2011. The demonstrators are demanding the release of prisoners sentenced to death in Iraq for their involvement in the Gulf war.

Salafists in Tunisia demand release of prisoners in Iraq

By Rich Shulman

One of the results of the Arab Spring is the re-emergence of ethnic and religious minority groups. In Tunisia, the Salafists are an Islamist party that suffered repression under ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's government.

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