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Tunisian court allows an 81-year-old man to drop part of his name denoting slave ancestry

In a historic ruling, a Tunisian court allowed an 81-year-old man to drop part of his name denoting slave ancestry.

Hamden Dali was able to remove ‘atig’, meaning ‘liberated by’, in a move that anti-racism campaigners have praised
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