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Tunisian activist Lina Ben Mhenni, one of the main icons of the 2011 Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, died on Monday aged 36 after suffering from a long illness, AFP reports. Ben Mhenni is founder of the blog 'A Tunisian Girl', which documented the human rights abuses during the rule of former president Ben Ali. She was the first to report on the first protests after street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December in 2010, which sparked…
