The Interior Ministry said identity checks of niqab-wearing persons will be enforced, following security warnings that terrorists are wearing them to escape detection and the arrest of one such person in Ariana this week. Two people were killed in Sidi Bouzid when a police station was attacked on Feb. 11. President Marzouki condemned the recent coup attempt in Libya. Authorities in Tunis forced Islamist extremists who were selling jihadist material near al-Fath Mosque to vacate the site.
