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Tunisia’s ousted president, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, has died in exile in Saudi Arabia. His family lawyer said he died on Thursday, days after a free presidential election in his country.
“Ben Ali just died in Saudi Arabia,” the lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters by phone.
Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January 2011 as his compatriots rose up against his oppressive rule in a revolution that inspired other Arab Spring uprisings abroad and led to a democratic transition at home.
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