"A prominent Tunisian opposition leader accused his government on Tuesday of pressuring Lebanon into denying him a visa for a lecture about democracy in the Arab world. Moncef Marzouki, who has called on Tunisians to engage in civil disobedience against their government, was due to give a lecture at the Orient Institute in Beirut, but the German-run organization was told by Lebanon's General Security, which vets visa applications, that Marzouki would not be allowed to enter the
country."