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Or so said on Tuesday the Tunisian policewoman who was accused of hitting a young man in the face four months ago,... Email Print Related News Yemen police kill 3 as protests escalate Tue, Apr 19 2011 Syria lifts emergency but police arrest leftist Tue, Apr 19 2011 U.N. says 20 children killed in Misrata Tue, Apr 19 2011 WRAPUP 6-UN says 20 children killed in Misrata, wants truce Tue, Apr 19 2011 Thousands demand overthrow of Assad after deaths Mon, Apr 18 2011 Analysis & Opinion Days of protest after Christian governor named in southern Egypt US-Pakistan ties : bleeding America in Afghanistan Related Topics World » United Nations » By Tarek Amara SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia | Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:46pm EDT SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia (Reuters) -They called it the "slap heard around the Arab world." And it never happened. Or so said on Tuesday the Tunisian policewoman who was accused of hitting a young man in the face four months ago, prompting him to set himself alight and triggering a chain reaction of popular anger against Arab police states that has since unseated two dictators and caused others to tremble. "I'm innocent. I did not slap him," Fadia Hamdi, the 36-year-old policewoman, told a court in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid before the judge dismissed the case and freed her. The mother of Mohamed Bouazizi, the young vegetable seller who felt so aggrieved by Hamdi's treatment of him that he set himself on fire, forgave the policewoman in a spirit of "reconciliation" and dropped the complaint against her. Hamdi's lawyer said she had been made a scapegoat by deposed president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who had her jailed as he fought to appease the protests triggered by Bouazizi's death. Three months after Ben Ali's flight from Tunis, Hamdi's acquittal provoked jubilation among her friends and Tunisia's state news agency TAP declared the ruling a proof of judicial independence and a "break with the old regime." Manoubia, the mother of Bouazizi whose name has been on the lips of millions who marched to overthrow Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, told the court according to TAP: "I leave things in God's hands. For me, it is enough that Mohamed's martyrdom has resulted in freedom and the fall of tyrants." Since Mubarak's departure from Cairo in February, marking the high point of the "Arab Spring" movement in the most populous Arab state, authoritarian rulers have held their own. In Syria on Tuesday, President Bashar al-Assad's government agreed to end half a century of "emergency law" in a bid to appease demonstrators whose actions over the past month the Syrian ruler has met with a combination of concessions and force -- more than 200 have been killed. Protests continued after the announcement, with demonstrators taking to the streets in the city of Banias and opposition leaders said they would not stop until their other demands, including the release of political prisoners, freedom of speech, and a multi-party system, were also met. "This is all just talk. The protests won't stop until all the demands are met or the regime is gone," leading opposition figure Haitham Maleh, an 80-year-old former judge, told Reuters. The cabinet decision came hours after activists said Syrian forces opened fire to disperse protesters in the central city of Homs, where 17 people were killed on Sunday night. And hours after the bill to lift law was passed, Syrian police arrested opposition figure Mahmoud Issa, rights campaigners said. Rights activists also said at least three more protesters were shot dead in the latest shooting early on Tuesday. 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