Mokhtar Yahyaoui
Mokhtar Yahyaoui | |
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Born | Ksar Hadada, Tataouine Governorate, Tunisia | June 1, 1952
Died | September 22, 2015 Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia | (aged 63)
Nationality | Tunisia |
Occupation | Tunisian judge |
Mokhtar Yahyaoui (
He was isolated in 2001 from the judiciary and confiscated his property, after sending a message to President Ben Ali criticizing the Tunisian judiciary mode. After the
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Following the
Personal life
Judge Yahyaoui has a daughter Amira Yahyaoui, she is an activist and the founder of the watchdog NGO Al Bawsala. His nephew is the famous blogger Zouhair Yahyaoui, the founder of a satirical website TUNeZINE, he is the first cyber-dissident who died as a result of torture in 2005.
Death
Yahyaoui died according to a preliminary medical report cardiac arrest on September 22, 2015, in Teskrayah in the village of Ghazaleh from the region of Bizerte. He was transferred to the regional hospital Al Habib Boktefh in Bizerte and then to the Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis.
Honors and awards
- After his death on October 7, 2015, his family received the second class of the Order of the Republic of Tunisia by the President of the Republic of Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi.[3]
See also
References
- ^ (Eng) Death of Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui, Tunisia Live http://www.tunisia-live.net/2015/09/23/mokhtar-yahyaoui-death/ Archived 2015-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (French) interview with Mokhtar Yahyaoui about Ben Ali regime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPZsm0zJKc
- ^ President of the Republic of Tunisia gives the second class of the Order of the Republic of Tunisia to Judge Yahyaoui's family http://www.rtci.tn/hommage-posthume-au-magistrat-mokhtar-yahyaoui/