Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Advisers of former President Ben Ali were arrested

After the 14th of January, the now former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to leave the country by increasing social tension, some of his associates have been detained. Former Interior Minister and current Senate President Abdullah Kalel and Abelaziz Bendhia, former head of defense and chief adviser of the deposed president, was placed under house arrest.

In addition, Abdelwahab Abdallah, former Deputy Chief of Ben Ali, known for his control over the media in the country, "is being investigated," the official Tunisian news agency TAP. The two advisers Ben Ali await the results of the inquiry commission established by the interim government to investigate the crimes committed in the popular revolt in early January, during which about 120 people were fatally shot by police or guard former president.

Minister of Interior for seven years in the period of increased repression of political opposition in Tunisia, Kalel organized the arrest of about 15 000 opponents. The former defense minister was responsible in recent years of former internal affairs as the main adviser to the president and one of the architects of policy.

The current prime minister of the transitional government, Mohamed Ghanuchi, said recently that all those responsible for corruption and abuse of power in the country "will be brought to justice." Who also has been arrested on charges of "high treason" and "attempted attacks against state security", is the owner of the private television channel "Hannibal TV", Larbi Nasra.

Thousands of protesters, including protesters who were trade unionists, left-wing opposition, Islamist, ordinary citizens, women and children, besieged the palace of the Prime Minister, with the purpose of demanding the resignation of the transitional government and the Ministers from the scheme former President Ben Ali.

Participants in the "Caravan of liberation", which started on Saturday the Midwest and the country's rural poor, who joined a mass of protesters in Tunisia, were the first to lay siege to the headquarters. Monday will be a key day to measure the evolution of the correlation of forces between the protesters and the government.

Students from schools, colleges and high schools of theory must go back to school after they were suspended on January 10, four days before the escape, the former president. But the union of primary school teachers called for an "unlimited general strike" on Monday to demand a new government free from the presence of all the leaders of the era of Ben Ali.

For its part, Saudi Arabia said Sunday it agreed to grant asylum to the deposed president, with the idea to stop the "bloodshed" in Tunisia.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 2:47 AM

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