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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tarek Amara

Tunisian election marks a new low for 'birdman' of 2011 uprising

Wadii Jelassi, who won fame releasing a caged bird among protesters during Tunisia's 2011 revolution in Tunis, speaks during an interview with Reuters at a cafe in Nahli, a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Tarek Amara

Nearly 12 years after his image went around the world as he freed a caged bird among protesters during Tunisia's revolution, Wadii Jelassi has lost the political ideals that inspired him to rise above the crowd.

His country holds a parliamentary election on Saturday. But the new legislature will be largely powerless and, after years of political disappointment and a slide away from democracy, Jelassi will not vote.

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