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Ben Ali: Tunisian Autocrat Ousted In Arab Spring Dies In Exile by Tbasicme: 4:18pm On Sep 19, 2019
Zine El Abidine Ben (3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali, was a Tunisian politician who was President of Tunisia from 1987 until his ousting in 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and he assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba, who was declared incompetent. Ben Ali was subsequently reelected with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote; the final re-election was on 25 October 2009.
On 14 January 2011, following a month of protests against his rule, he was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia along with his wife Leïla Ben Ali and their three children. The interim Tunisian government asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant, charging him for money laundering and drugs trafficking. A Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali and his wife in absentia to 35 years in prison on 20 June 2011 on charges of theft and unlawful possession of cash and jewellery In June 2012, a Tunisian court sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment for inciting violence and murder and another life sentence by a military court on April 2013 for violent repression of protests in Sfax.
Aljazeera reported that a Saudi source had confirmed that Ben Ali had indeed sustained severe complications of a stroke and that he was in critical condition.


source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali

Re: Ben Ali: Tunisian Autocrat Ousted In Arab Spring Dies In Exile by Amazingman(m): 4:21pm On Sep 19, 2019
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Re: Ben Ali: Tunisian Autocrat Ousted In Arab Spring Dies In Exile by SpecialAdviser(m): 4:23pm On Sep 19, 2019
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