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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/extunisian-leaders-assets-probed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A protester addresses riot police officers during a demonstration against the RCD party in Tunis (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-extunisian-leaders-assets-probed.jpg" alt="A protester addresses riot police officers during a demonstration against the RCD party in Tunis (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Tunisia has begun an investigation into the overseas assets of its overthrown president and his deeply resented family.</p>
<p>The move came as hundreds of protesters led a peaceful rally in central Tunis, demanding that former allies of deposed Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stop clinging to power.</p>
<p>Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after 23 years in power, and a caretaker government run by his prime minister is now struggling to calm tensions.</p>
<p>The fragile state of the government highlights Tunisians&#8217; questions about who is in control.</p>
<p>The official TAP news agency said the Tunisian prosecutor&#8217;s office moved to investigate bank accounts, property and other assets held by Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi and other relatives. His relatives &#8211; especially his wife&#8217;s family &#8211; were seen as corrupt and dominated many businesses in the nation.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Swiss president said that her country&#8217;s federal council agreed to freeze any assets in Switzerland belonging to Ben Ali, to help work up a possible criminal case over alleged stolen funds.</p>
<p>In Berlin, a German official said the European Union was working on a joint position or concrete proposals on Tunisia, which could include a decision on how to handle Ben Ali&#8217;s assets in Europe.</p>
<p>At the UN European headquarters in Geneva, human rights commissioner Navi Pillay told reporters she would send a team to Tunisia to investigate, and that &#8220;human rights abuses were at the heart of Tunisia&#8217;s problems&#8221;.</p>
<p>She said her office has received information on more than 100 deaths in the last five weeks &#8220;as a result of live fire, as well as protest suicides and the deadly prison riots at the weekend&#8221;.</p>
<p>Tunisia&#8217;s interim government, already hit by defections, was due to hold its first cabinet meeting. It also eased the hours of a curfew initiated in the final days of Ben Ali&#8217;s rule &#8211; ended after a deadly revolt swept up the streets nationwide.</p>
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