Tunisia's top private television channel was taken off air on Sunday and its boss jugged for "high treason," as protests in Tunis kept up the pressure on Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to quit.An official quoted on state news agency TAP said Hannibal TV's boss Larbi Nasra "was using his channel to stamp out the revolution of the young, sow chaos, incite civil disobedience and broadcast false information".
Officials said they had also nabbed two key figures from the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who quit on January 14 after 23 years in power.
Senate leader Abdullah Kallal and top Ben Ali adviser Abdel Aziz Ben Dhia were being held under house arrest, TAP news agency reported.
Hundreds of people, meanwhile, rallied outside Ghannouchi's offices in the city centre at a protest that had drawn thousands earlier on Sunday, many of them from impoverished regions where Tunisia's uprising began last month.
Protesters said they intended to spend the night in the streets and called for a complete removal from power of anyone associated with the old regime, including Ghannouchi, who has served as prime minister since 1999.