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The Associated Press
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 9:53 AM ET
Last Updated: Jun 20, 2011 12:39 PM ET.
Judge Touhami Hafi gestures, at the Tunis Criminal Court, in Tunis where Tunisia ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali went on trial Monday for embezzlement, money laundering and drug trafficking. (Hassene Dridi/Associated Press).
Tunisia’s former autocratic ruler, whose ouster triggered a series of Arab world uprisings, went on trial in absentia Monday in the first of what will likely be a long series of court proceedings five months after he went into exile.
The Tunis Criminal Court is hearing two embezzlement, money laundering and drug trafficking cases against Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
It follows the discovery of around $27 million in jewels and cash plus drugs and weapons at two palaces outside Tunis after he flew to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14.
Ben Ali, 74, vigorously denied the charges in a statement through his French lawyer, calling the proceedings a “shameful masquerade of the justice of the victorious.”
Five public defenders have been assigned to Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, who is accused in one of the two cases in Monday’s trial.
Saudi Arabia the asylum provider of all deposed cruel African Dictators will never extradite this rogue back to Tunisia!
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