More demonstrations are expected in Tunisia amid reports of police crackdowns on allies of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Two high-ranking officials are reported to have been placed under house arrest.
And the head of a well-known private TV station was detained for allegedly trying to slow down the country's move toward democracy.
State news agency TAP reported that Larbi Nasri, the president of Hannibal TV, was arrested along with his son on charges of high treason and plotting against state security.
TAP also reported that former Ben Ali advisers Abdallah Kallel and Abdelaziz Ben Dhia have been placed under house arrest, with police are looking for a third man, Abdelwaheb Abdallah.
And the crowds gathering on a daily basis in the capital Tunis seem set on claiming more scalps from the interim government, ahead of planned elections within six months
Sky News travelled into the capital with one young woman who had been away from her homeland for a week.
While she had been absent, the country has seen a president flee amid unprecedented street protests and reverberations across the region.
Yosra Kaboul returned to see tanks on the streets, razorwire along the pavements and barricades being built by her countrymen and women in order to protect their own houses.
She said: "Everything was normal when I went. Now we are free. I can't believe it.
"We are not used to this. We are a calm people normally. It is all very confusing."
At her home in a suburb of Tunis, her parents, brother and sister are glued to the television watching events they never expected to see.
Her parents are both professionals; her mother is a French teacher, her father, a lawyer.
But like much of the Tunisian public there is no love lost for their former president or his acolytes still in power.
"They are all his accomplices," Yosra's mother Rachida says.
"They were appointed by him and they profited from the system. They should all go."
The members of the interim government set up to lead the country into the first democratic elections have been pressured by the daily protests to resign from the former leader's ruling Party, the RCD.
But this has not been enough for the thousands marching through the streets. They want a complete purge of all members of the former regime.
"They all have to go," one man told Sky News.
"It is not good enough for them to leave the party. We don't want any of them there. We want a clean start."
Another man said: "Out of the fourteen members of the interim cabinet, eleven of them are the president's people. This is not democracy."
The prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has already said he will quit politics after the election - but the indication on the streets was that his departure was not going to be sufficient either.
Much of the ire among the protestors is singled out for Mr Ghannouchi, with his former ally President Ben Ali now in exile in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Ghannouchi has already tried to distance himself from his former boss by being one of the first to resign from the RCD Party.
But he did not help himself by admitting on French television that he had spoken to the former leader by telephone a day after he fled.
For the Kaboul family, life in Tunisia has suddenly got a lot better.
"We were not able to speak freely before," said Mrs Kaboul.
"It was a hell and the government decided the road we took and whether we went left or right. Now, it is up to us."
Two high-ranking officials are reported to have been placed under house arrest.
And the head of a well-known private TV station was detained for allegedly trying to slow down the country's move toward democracy.
State news agency TAP reported that Larbi Nasri, the president of Hannibal TV, was arrested along with his son on charges of high treason and plotting against state security.
TAP also reported that former Ben Ali advisers Abdallah Kallel and Abdelaziz Ben Dhia have been placed under house arrest, with police are looking for a third man, Abdelwaheb Abdallah.
And the crowds gathering on a daily basis in the capital Tunis seem set on claiming more scalps from the interim government, ahead of planned elections within six months
Sky News travelled into the capital with one young woman who had been away from her homeland for a week.
While she had been absent, the country has seen a president flee amid unprecedented street protests and reverberations across the region.
Yosra Kaboul returned to see tanks on the streets, razorwire along the pavements and barricades being built by her countrymen and women in order to protect their own houses.
She said: "Everything was normal when I went. Now we are free. I can't believe it.
"We are not used to this. We are a calm people normally. It is all very confusing."
At her home in a suburb of Tunis, her parents, brother and sister are glued to the television watching events they never expected to see.
Her parents are both professionals; her mother is a French teacher, her father, a lawyer.
But like much of the Tunisian public there is no love lost for their former president or his acolytes still in power.
"They are all his accomplices," Yosra's mother Rachida says.
"They were appointed by him and they profited from the system. They should all go."
The members of the interim government set up to lead the country into the first democratic elections have been pressured by the daily protests to resign from the former leader's ruling Party, the RCD.
But this has not been enough for the thousands marching through the streets. They want a complete purge of all members of the former regime.
"They all have to go," one man told Sky News.
"It is not good enough for them to leave the party. We don't want any of them there. We want a clean start."
Another man said: "Out of the fourteen members of the interim cabinet, eleven of them are the president's people. This is not democracy."
The prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has already said he will quit politics after the election - but the indication on the streets was that his departure was not going to be sufficient either.
Much of the ire among the protestors is singled out for Mr Ghannouchi, with his former ally President Ben Ali now in exile in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Ghannouchi has already tried to distance himself from his former boss by being one of the first to resign from the RCD Party.
But he did not help himself by admitting on French television that he had spoken to the former leader by telephone a day after he fled.
For the Kaboul family, life in Tunisia has suddenly got a lot better.
"We were not able to speak freely before," said Mrs Kaboul.
"It was a hell and the government decided the road we took and whether we went left or right. Now, it is up to us."
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