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Title	Tunisia: A demonstration held in Tunis on or around 30 July 2000 by students of the Jouda ben Ayed University of Sciences and Technology (Institut national des sciences appliquées et de la technologie), including its purpose, the current situation of demonstrators and organisers, the state reactions and whether police threw smoke bombs at demonstrators, locked students in their rooms and arrested some of them (July 2000)
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Tunisia
Publication Date	27 April 2004
Citation / Document Symbol	TUN42575.E
Reference	2
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Tunisia: A demonstration held in Tunis on or around 30 July 2000 by students of the Jouda ben Ayed University of Sciences and Technology (Institut national des sciences appliquées et de la technologie), including its purpose, the current situation of demonstrators and organisers, the state reactions and whether police threw smoke bombs at demonstrators, locked students in their rooms and arrested some of them (July 2000), 27 April 2004, TUN42575.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/41501c660.html [accessed 31 May 2012]
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Tunisia: A demonstration held in Tunis on or around 30 July 2000 by students of the Jouda ben Ayed University of Sciences and Technology (Institut national des sciences appliquées et de la technologie), including its purpose, the current situation of demonstrators and organisers, the state reactions and whether police threw smoke bombs at demonstrators, locked students in their rooms and arrested some of them (July 2000)

No mention of the Jouda ben Ayed University of Science and Technology could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. Furthermore, during a 27 April 2004 telephone interview, the Secretary General of the General Union of Tunisian Students (Union générale des étudiants tunisiens-UGET) stated that he is not aware of the existence of any university or any institute called Jouda ben Ayed.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Reference

General Union of Tunisian Students (Union Générale des étudiants tunisiens-UGET), Tunis. 27 April 2004. Telephone interview with the Secretary General.

Additional Sources Consulted

Publications: Africa Confidential, Africa Research Bulletin, Jeune Afrique/L'Intelligent, Keesing's Record of world Events, Resource Centre country file. Tunisie, World of Learning.

Websites, including: Africatime, AllAfrica, Amnesty International, Arabic News, Dialog, Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH), Human Rights Watch (HRW), InfoTunisie, Le Maghreb des droits de l'homme; La Presse (Tunisie).

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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