On Saturday, April 21st, the head and spokesman of the Tunisian Leftist-Secular independent list Doustourna, (made up of political candidates) Jawhar Ben Mbarek, and a group of other activists were attacked during a political meeting at the regional office of the Union of Tunisian Unemployed Graduates in the community of Souk El Ahad, in the Governorate of Kebili.

A Doustourna activist, Khemaies Bahri, told a TAP correspondent in Kebili that a group of Salafist youth burst into Doustourna's meeting room and prevented the activists from leaving the premises.

He said the group of young people assaulted the members of Doustourna by throwing chairs at them, bruising different Doustourna activists including Jawher Ben Mbarek and Zohra Triki. The injuries required some of the activists to be transported to the hospital for emergency care. After causing injuries, the attackers left the premises. Bahri also reported that the attackers smashed the windows of two cars. Shortly afterward, a video circulated on facebook in which Mbarek said that he heard one of the attackers was calling for his killing.

On Friday, April 20th Dr. Hamad Ben Massaoud, a Doustourna activist, reported to TAP that a Salafist group had prevented members of Doustourna from holding a meeting at the Mohamed Marzouki Cultural Center in Douz, in the governorate of Kebili. They had to hold their meeting instead in a local hotel.