Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
✓ Source-basedstableTunisian politician
He ruled Tunisia for 24 years through sham elections that delivered him over 90% of the vote each time, then became the first Arab Spring leader to fall when mass protests drove him into Saudi exile in January 2011.
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I won't accept that another drop of blood of a Tunisian be spilled.
Ordering Tunisian troops to stop firing on protesters, unless they attack. (January 2011)
These incidents will never break down our determination nor undermine our achievements.
Last speech to the Tunisian people by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali before his resignation four days later, (January 2011).
I will say to you once more loud and clear: Do write on any subject you choose. There are no taboos except what is prohibited by law and press ethics.
Regarding to restrictions of free press, of Tunisia, (2001). .
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Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles
Kersti KaljulaidAlso won Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
Sauli NiinistöAlso won Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Mswati IIIAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope
Enrique Peña NietoAlso won Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Michał KamińskiAlso won National Maltese Order of MeritAbout this person
Ben Ali took power on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup, removing President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent after being appointed Prime Minister only a month earlier. He ran an authoritarian state, winning every re-election by enormous margins in contests that were not democratic, the last in October 2009. A month of street protests in early 2011 ended his presidency: on 14 January he fled with his wife Leïla and their three children to Saudi Arabia. Tunisian courts sentenced him in absentia to 35 years for theft and unlawful possession in June 2011, then to life for inciting violence and murder in 2012, and another life sentence by military tribunal in 2013 for repression of protests in Sfax. He served none of those terms, dying in Jeddah on 19 September 2019 at 83, nearly a decade into exile.
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