Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Arab leaders pose for a family photo prior to the opening ceremony of the Arab summit in Damascus on March 29, 2008. Front row (L-R) Morocco's Prince Moulay Rachid, Comoros Islands President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi, Palestinain president Mahmud Abbas, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, Libyan Leader Moamer al-Kadhafi, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, United Arab Emirates's President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan and Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Ahmed al-Sabah. Syria is hosting today a summit boycotted this year by half of the Arab world's leaders who blame Damascus for the political crisis in Lebanon.
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Tunisia is not an American state but it is a sovereign state whose people rose up against a dictator (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali) who worked for the West... I hope the Tunisian state will not be influenced by this pressure.
It is an unacceptable interference in the business of the Tunisian ministry of justice to put pressure on the Tunisian state
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Tunisia: Sweeping Political Exclusion Law - Proposal Violates Fundamental Rights
Tunis — Tunisia's legislature should amend the latest draft of a law intended to bar government officials under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from holding public office for seven years. The proposed law's provisions and procedures for exclusio from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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Editorial: U.S. must be smart about entering Syria
A year or two ago, it all seemed so inevitable. Just as Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been swept from power in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak deposed in Egypt and Moammar Khadafy toppled in Libya, surely it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad's cruel from The News-Herald Read more »
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Tunisia: Sweeping Political Exclusion Law
(Tunis) – Tunisia’s legislature should amend the latest draft of a law intended to bar government officials under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from holding public office for seven years. The proposed law’s provisions and procedures for exclus from Human Rights Watch Read more »
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Femen activists jailed in Tunisia
12 June 2013 Last updated at 14:29 ET Femen activists demonstrated outside a court in support of Amina Tyler on 29 May Three European feminists have been sentenced to four months in prison in Tunisia for staging a topless protest. A judge convicted the t from BBC News Read more »
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New Image (no caption) - 12 June 2013
In January 2011, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was the President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, fled to Saudi Arabia with his wife and children following violent protests against his rule. In June 2012, Ben Ali was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in abs from Mid Day Read more »
