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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Tunisia orders top European trade union official expelled

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Tunisian president Kais Saied ordered Europe's top trade union official to leave the country after she addressed protesters at a demonstration organized by the North African country's influential labor union.

Authorities in Tunis accused Esther Lynch, the Irish general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, of making statements that “interfered with Tunisian internal affairs” during a protest against the country's increasingly authoritarian president in the port city of Sfax on Saturday.

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