At a Tunisian book fair, attendees discover several stands closed in solidarity with Dar El-Kitab ("The House of Books"), a publishing house whose stand was ordered closed at the fair. Authorities shut down the stand and confiscated its copies of author Kamel Riahi s book "The Tunisian Frankenstein,
Tunisian President Kais Saied preached freedom of thought at a book fair on Friday, shortly before authorities confiscated a book comparing him to Frankenstein, its author and publisher said.