Tunisia state-of-emergency set to expire Tunisia's state of emergency, in effect since veteran strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in a mass uprising and regularly renewed for up to three- month periods, is supposed to end on June 3. But a fragile security situation in the country, where radical Islamists are blamed for a wave of violence in recent months, may mean another renewal. File images of troops in the city centre and of people walking in the streets