Nationality Tunisia Occupation Tunisian judge | Name Mokhtar Yahyaoui | |
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Died September 22, 2015, Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia | ||
Entretien avec mokhtar yahyaoui
Mokhtar Yahyaoui (Arabic: مختار اليحياوي) was a human rights activist and a Tunisian judge. He was opposed to the system of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Yahyaoui was born on June 1, 1952 in the village of Ksar Hadada in southern Tunisia, and died in September 22, 2015 in Teskrayah in the village of Ghazaleh from the region of Bizerte.
Contents
- Entretien avec mokhtar yahyaoui
- Mokhtar Yahyaoui Olfa Riahi encourt des poursuites judiciaires
- Activities
- Personal life
- His death
- Honors and awards
- References
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 Tunisian revolution, the Administrative Court overturned, on March 23, 2011, the judgement against him in 2001. Following the court decision, he returned to the legal profession.
Mokhtar Yahyaoui : " Olfa Riahi encourt des poursuites judiciaires "
Activities
Following the Tunisian revolution, Yahyaoui became as a national figure a member of the Higher Authority for Realisation of the Objectives of the Revolution, Political Reform and Democratic Transition in 2011. Then he was appointed in February 2012, Chairman of the National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data.
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.
His 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
