Other luminaries arrested last year included Sihem Bensedrine who chaired the Truth and Dignity Commission established after late dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011...
Under the last authoritarian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali non-governmental organisations and intellectuals were stifled...
In the past few weeks he has imprisoned political heavyweights including Noureddine Bhiri a senior official in Islamist Ennahda party influential activist Khayam Turki and the former kingmaker for former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Kamel Eltaïef...
Mass demonstrations took place on 14 January the twelfth anniversary of the revolution that unseated President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring...
Many regions outside Tunis and richer 'Sahel' cities remain as marginalised as they were under Zine el Abidine Ben Ali who was removed in the 2011 revolution and indeed under founding president Habib Bourguiba...
Analysts contend that this parliament will be even less influential than the toothless chamber under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...
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A year on from his suspension of parliament and assumption of absolute powers Saïed has little to show for this slide back to authoritarianism of the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era...
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Saïed restructured the Instance supérieure indépendante pour les élections in May and opposition parties from the left and the hard right Parti destourien libre (PDL) led by former Zine el Abidine Ben Ali loyalist Abir Moussi have accused it of corruption...
That last provision is important because it was the neutrality of the army when protestors went on the streets across Tunisia that allowed the non-violent toppling of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime in 2011 and his subsequent flight to Saudi Arabia...
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In Tunis unemployment is running at about 18% and over 30% in the poorer south the crucible of the revolution that led to the overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in 2011...
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