TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A Tunisian court dropped charges Tuesday against a policewoman whose dispute with a fruit vendor who killed himself sparked a chain of events that unleashed uprisings around the Arab world.
The state news agency TAP says the case against Fedia Hamdi was closed after the vendor's family withdrew its original complaint. The family says it acted in a gesture of tolerance and an effort to heal wounds suffered in Tunisia's upheaval of recent months.