Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisia's Interior Ministry has remained largely untouched by recent democratic reforms despite a brutal record under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and its efforts to suppress the Jasmine Revolution in 2011 (AC Vol 55 No 11 Enforcers freed)...

In ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's Tunisia 20% of company profits ended up in the hands of just 114 relatives...

Asked by Radio Express FM about an alliance with Nidaa outgoing Speaker and Ettakatol presidential candidate Mustafa Ben Jaafar was reluctant to ally with ex-members of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique some of whom are on Nidaa lists...

Dealing with bad debts from the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era which threaten the banking system has proved so problematic that the government has been contradicting itself...

Police popularityInterior ministry intelligence personnel riot police and troops were regarded with suspicion after the fall of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali but with the old guard leadership phased out and the services having largely refrained from direct interference in politics they have been coming back into public favour...

Most of the senior security officers who served ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali are being freed...

He is one of those Nahdawiin as Ennahda members are known who remained in Tunisia after ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali clamped down on the Islamist party in 1989-90...

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...