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Gulf Cooperation Council states, led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the U.S. , had sought to resolve Yemen’s conflict to reduce instability in the region. At least 900 people died in the unrest. Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia in...
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And in many cases, from Angola to Saudi Arabia, governments are using claims of online disorder as a cover to introduce far more repressive laws that unashamedly target journalists and the right to free expression. When Tunisian blogger Slim Amamou was...
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Abada Kefi (L), the lawyer representing the Ali Seriati, former security chief under ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, arrives for a trial hearing at the military court in Tunis on February 14, 2012. Former Interior Minister Rafik Haj... View Photo »
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We are disturbed that a full year after the overthrow Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, journalists are still being beaten in broad daylight in the streets of Tunis
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Gulf Cooperation Council states, led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the U.S. , had sought to resolve Yemen’s conflict to reduce instability in the region. At least 900 people died in the unrest. Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia in...
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In 2010, supporters pushed for constitutional changes to allow him unlimited five-year terms as president. Speculation was high that he was grooming one of his sons as a possible successor. But popular uprisings that toppled Tunisian President Zine...
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This "tsunami" has "moved tectonic plates and will provoke aftershocks that will lead to pre-democratic states in the best case", said Antoine Basbous, who heads the Paris-based Observatory of Arab Countries. Ousting dictators such as Tunisia's Zine El...
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Abada Kefi (R), the lawyer representing Ali Seriati, former security chief under ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, speaks with victims lawyer Sahrfeddine Al Qallil (L) at a trial hearing at the military court in Tunis on February 14,... View Photo »
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In some countries, such as Tunisia and Egypt, popular revolutionary movements toppled authoritarian leaders that had been in power for decades. Hosni Mubarak had been President of Egypt since Anwar al-Sadat's assassination by Islamists in 1981. ...
About Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Arabic: زين العابدين بن علي, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn bin ‘Alī; born 3 September 1936) is the former President of the Tunisian Republic. He held the office from 7 November, 1987, until he was forced to step down and flee the country on 14 January, 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and assumed the... Full Article
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Imed Trabelsi (C), a nephew of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, arrives for a third trial hearing at a court in Tunis August 10, 2011. The trial of 23 relatives and allies of Ben Ali, charged with trying to illegally flee the country, resumed on Wednesday.
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Abada Kefi, the lawyer representing the Trabelsi family and Ali Seriati, former security chief under ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, arrives for a trial hearing at a court in Tunis, on August 10, 2011. The trial resumed of 23 relatives and allies of Tunisia's ousted...
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The nephew of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Imed Trabelsi (L), and the husband of Ben Ali's sister-in-law, Mohamed Mahjoub (C), arrive for a thrid trial hearing, at a court in Tunis, on August 10, 2011. The trial resumed of 23 relatives and allies of Tunisia's...
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The nephew of the deposed President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Imed Trabelsi (C), arrives for a thrid trial hearing, at a court in Tunis, on August 10, 2011. The trial resumed of 23 relatives and allies of Tunisia's ousted president on charges of trying to illegally flee the...
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