Iran press/ Africa: Mohammed Bin Salman is expected to arrive in Tunisia on Tuesday afternoon as a part of his regional tour before he makes his way to the G20 summit set to take place in Argentina at the end of the month.
It is also his first overseas tour after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two months ago. The murder - widely seen as orchestrated by the crown prince - created an international firestorm against Saudi Arabia that continues to reverberate.
"As a Tunisian citizen, I reject bin Salman's visit to Tunis," Achraf Aouadi, a civil society activist, told Al Jazeera.
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Some 13 Tunisian civic and rights groups, among them the journalists' union, had called for a protest at the central Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, scene of the mass protests that toppled Ben Ali in 2011.
They waved pamphlets demanding "Freedom for Saudi women" or which read "Bin Salman, you are murderer Number 1".
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Saudi Arabia has said the crown prince had no prior knowledge of the killing of Washington Post columnist at Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul last month.
After offering numerous contradictory explanations, Riyadh said Khashoggi had been killed and his body dismembered when negotiations to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia failed. 209/102
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