Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Little effort has been made to overhaul the police in the past two years even though it was the mainstay of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s apparatus of repression...

Many lack technical expertise and even a grasp of contemporary issues having spent so long in gaol under ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...

During the years of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Abdessalem moved from Morocco where he took his first degree at Rabat’s Mohammed V University to Britain before moving to Qatar where he was Director of Research at Al Jazeera Satellite Channel...

Thiat has been compared to the Tunisian rapper Hamada Ben Amor (‘El Général’) who wrote a song credited with precipitating the overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...

The biggest of these is the demonstration effect: the overthrow of leaders such as Hosni Mubarak Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Moammar el Gadaffi has reinforced the determination of Africans to oust autocratic and incompetent regimes...

Marzouki’s human-rights work brought him into frequent conflict with the Tunis government and in 1994 he was gaoled for four months after challenging Zine el Abidine Ben Ali for the presidency...

The governing coalition also includes respected former liberal opponents of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali such as the President-Designate Moncef Marzouki and the Assembly Speaker Ettakatol Secretary General Mustapha Ben Jafaar...

He faces the same criticism as Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mohamed Hosni Mubarak: that they held on to power too long diverted state revenue to benefit their families and brutally suppressed opposition...

Tunisians kept their affection for constitutional principles and the rule of law throughout the corruption and autocracy that prevailed under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali whom they threw out in January...

• El Watan (Nation): founded in 2011 by Mohamed Jegham and Ahmed Friaa both interior ministers during President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s regime...