More than a thousand Tunisians, many of them young people and women, demonstrated on Friday “in defense of rights and freedoms”, less than a month before a presidential election in which the outgoing head of state, Kais Saied, accused of authoritarian tendencies, is seeking a second term. "This authority has undone the reversed the revolution gains of freedom, dignity, and liberty, reversing democratic progress", says a demonstrator. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES