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Street protesters in Tunisia kept up pressure for a government free of ties with the old guard while a prominent dissident said he would run for president to sweep the former leadership from power.
The country's interim leaders said they had freed the last of its political prisoners and promised a "complete break with the past" on Wednesday to appease the protesters who forced the strongman of 23 years, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to flee to Saudi Arabia last week with some of his wealthy entourage.
State television said 33 of Ben Ali's clan had been arrested for crimes against the nation. It showed what it said was seized gold and jewelry. Switzerland froze Ben Ali's family assets.
Demonstrators, though less numerous than during the days of rage which unseated Ben Ali, continued to insist on the removal of all ministers from his once feared RCD party.
Only that, they said, could satisfy the hopes of their "Jasmine Revolution".
In Sidi Bouzid, the hardscrabble central Tunisian town where the revolt against Ben Ali erupted after a vegetable seller, insulted by police, set himself on fire, residents said the changes at the top had not gone far enough.
"Ben Ali's gang remains in the RDC and is trying to steal the revolution and the blood of the martyrs," said Lazhar Gharbi, a head teacher and unionist in the town.
"We want the dissolution of this party. This is the solution, and we want to hold its members responsible for their corruption," he told Reuters.
Prisoners freed
The last of Ben Ali's political prisoners went free on Wednesday, said Najib Chebbi, an opposition figure named to the cabinet.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program, called the release "a significant and positive step" and said they should receive reparations.
"The Tunisian authorities now need to show that they are really serious about ending the culture of human rights abuses that has existed for over two decades, and begin to rein in the security apparatus that has harassed and oppressed ordinary Tunisians for so long," he added.
At a summit in Egypt, the head of the Arab League warned the region's leaders to heed economic and political problems.
The United Nations said it would send human rights advisers to Tunisia next week.
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Tunisian army soldiers stand guard near a tank in downtown Tunis January 15, 2011.
Reuters
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