Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisian politician

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Hammam Sousse, Sousse Governorate, Tunisia

Date of Death: 19-Sep-2019

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Tunisia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Arabic: ??? ???????? ?? ????, Zayn al-'Abidin bin 'Ali; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali, was a Tunisian politician and President of Tunisia from 1987 until his fall in 2011.
Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987.
He assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent.
Ben Ali was subsequently reelected with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote; his final re-election coming on 25 October 2009.On 14 January 2011, following a month of protests against his rule, he was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia along with his wife Leïla Ben Ali and their three children.
The interim Tunisian government asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant, charging him with money laundering and drug trafficking.
A Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali and his wife in absentia to 35 years in prison on 20 June 2011 on charges of theft and unlawful possession of cash and jewellery, of which were put up for auction.
In June 2012, a Tunisian court sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment for inciting violence and murder and another life sentence by a military court on April 2013 for violent repression of protests in Sfax.
He served none of those sentences, subsequently passing away in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after nearly a decade.