Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Arabic: ) romanized (Arabic: ) — 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), a Tunisian politician who served as Tunisia's second president from 1987 to 2011. He immigrated to Saudi Arabia in 1995 during the Tunisian revolution.
Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987. He took the Presidency in a bloodless coup d'état that deposed President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent. Ben Ali was subsequently re-elected with majorities, each time over 90% of the vote; his final re-election came on October 25, 2009. Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, died in February 2020, and he was the penultimate surviving leader deposed in the Arab Spring.
Following a month of demonstrations against his reign, he and his wife Lela Ben Ali and their three children arrived in Saudi Arabia on January 14, 2011. Interpol has asked Interpol to produce a foreign arrest warrant charging him with money laundering and drug trafficking. On the 20th of June 2011, a Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali and his wife in absentia to 35 years in jail for suspicion of robbery and unlawful possession of cash and jewelry, which was up for auction. A Tunisian court sentenced him to life in prison for inciting violence and murder in June 2012, as well as another life term for violent suppression of Sfax demonstrations. He completed none of those sentences and died in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at the age of 83, after nearly a decade in exile.
Early life, education and military career
Ben Ali was born in 1936 to moderate-income parents as the fourth of eleven children in the family. His father worked as a guard at the port city of Sousse.
Ben Ali joined the local resistance against French colonial forces and was imprisoned. His expulsion from secondary school was the reason why he never completed his secondary education. He studied at the Sousse Technical Institute but failed to earn a professional certificate and joined the newly formed Tunisian Army in 1958. Nevertheless, after being chosen as one of a group of young officers, he was awarded training in France at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in Coëtquidan and the School of Applied Artillery in Châlons-sur-Marne, and also in the United States at the Senior Intelligence School in Maryland and the School for Anti-Aircraft Field Artillery in Texas. He also held a diploma in electronics engineering from a local university. Returning to Tunisia in 1964, he began his professional military career the same year as a Tunisian staff officer. During his time in military service, he established the Military Security Department and directed its operations for 10 years. He briefly served as military attaché in the Tunisian embassy of Morocco and Spain before being appointed General Director of National Security in 1977.
In April 1980, Ben Ali was appointed ambassador to Poland, and served in that position for four years. He also served as the military intelligence chief from 1964 to 1974 and later Director General of national security between December 1977 and 1980 until he was appointed as Minister of Defense. Soon after the Tunisian bread riots in January 1984, he was reappointed director-general of national security. Ben Ali subsequently served as Minister of State in charge of the interior before being appointed Interior Minister on 28 April 1986 then Prime Minister by President Habib Bourguiba in October 1987.