GV The fall of the Ben Ali regime revealed talented Tunisian cartoonists.

Things only started to change after the fall of the Ben Ali regime.

Since the beginning, it was obvious to me that my target would be the regime of Ben Ali.

_Z_ My position toward the former Ben Ali regime necessitated utmost vigilance from my part regarding my identity.

Ben Aicha was referring to a counter terrorism draft law set to replace the 2003 law enacted by the former regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

On October 23, 2011, Tunisians elected an assembly to draft its new constitution, following the toppling of the Ben Ali regime.

Almost 19 months after the fall of the Ben Ali regime, you still prefer to conceal your identity. Why is that?

Aged 69, Moncef Marzouki was a human rights activist and a political opponent to the regime of Zine el Abidin Ben Ali.

The Ennahda Movement, formerly banned under the Ben Ali regime, won a plurality of 90 seats out of a total of 217.

Once the army s refusal to support his regime became clear, Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, after France refused to welcome him into exile.

Today marks the seventh death anniversary of Zouhair Yahyaoui, the first Tunisian cyber activist, to be detained during the regime of Zeine El Abidin Ben Ali.

Later on the same day, Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia.

Despite all this, I do admit that we are still enjoying a freedom atmosphere incomparable with what we used to live under during the regime of Ben Ali.

Later on the same day, Ben Ali fled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

On January, 14, 2011 thousands of protesters gathered near the Interior Ministry building in Tunis calling for the fall of the regime of dictator Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Ben Ali s regime ultimately became a pure dictatorship.

Saddam Hussein and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali preceded Mubarak in the dock.

On December 12, the national constituent assembly elected human rights activist Moncef Marzouki, who was imprisoned, and exiled under Ben Ali' regime, as the new President of the Republic of Tunisia.

Cartoon published on the occasion of the 2009 Tunisia presidential and legislative elections GV No one ever dared to mock Ben Ali and ridicule his regime the way you did. The former regime did not succeed in revealing your real identity.

Former Tunisian President Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali was an enemy to freedom of speech.

In July 2010, Mrs. Ben Ali founded SAIDA to improve care for cancer patients in Tunisia.

Protest against interim government presided by Mohamed Ghannouchi, a close ally of Ben Ali, on February 25.

This is the wisdom that Egypt s Hosni Mubarak, Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi, Tunisia s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Yemen s Ali Abdullah Saleh all failed to learn.

President Ben Ali is in control of the situation, some said. Or President Mubarak has our complete confidence.

Thus, Ben Ali has demoted prominent politicians back when they attained sufficient influence to be considered potential successors.

On his website TUNeZINE , Yahyaoui had criticized Ben Ali's corrupt and autocratic regime.

He played a pivotal role in the release of US State Department documents and cables that corroborated allegations of deep corruption and systemic human rights abuses by the Tunisian government under the Ben Ali regime, known as Tunileaks.

The so called economic reconciliation law has triggered criticism, as it would grant amnesty to business people and officials accused of corruption during the regime of former dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, provided that they return any unlawfully obtained funds.

After spending more than a decade outside of Tunisia, fearing persecution by the Ben Ali regime, he returned to Tunisia following the revolution where he continued to work on the Nawaat platform which serves as a space for independent media.

Ben Ali, the new president, was a hero to most and, in the first years of his rule, deservedly so.

The saddest part is that I have not felt this angry at my country since the time of Ben Ali.

On January 14, 2011, thousands of protesters gathered outside the building of the Interior Ministry in the capital Tunis. The protesters were chanting Interior Ministry is a Terrorist Ministry , and Ben Ali Dégage (Ben Ali Get Out). The demonstration which started peaceful, ended up with police violently dispersing protesters.

Essebsi's opponents criticize him for his old age and his association with the previous autocratic regimes of Bourguiba and Ben Ali.

Meanwhile, both Egypt and Tunisia, which have had popular uprisings which have toppled Hosni Mubarak and Zein El Abdideen Ben Ali respectively, and which also flank Libya, have opened their borders for humanitarian relief to reach Libyans, under attack from the Gaddafi regime.

But at the same time, this mockery reflects the popular dissatisfaction with the political class in Tunisia, which nearly four years after the ousting of the Ben Ali regime, has done little to respond to the urgent socio economic aspirations of Tunisians.

It should be acknowledged that Ben Ali strengthened the foundations of Tunisian exceptionalism, furthering gender equality and separation of religion and state.

His caricatures which did not please former autocratic ruler Zeine el Abidin Ben Ali, do not seem to please Tunisia s Islamists either.

The US, for its part, did not abandon authoritarian allies such as Egypt s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali immediately.

He had been ousted in the dead of night in a bloodless coup staged by his prime minister, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Hand kissing was popular during the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and is viewed as against the values of post uprising Tunisia.

Essebsi also served as the head of the chamber of deputies between 1990 to 1991 under the rule of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

In Tunisia, a successor from the Trabelsi branch of the Ben Ali clan linked to the president through his second wife, Leila Trabelsi could target the extensive interests of families related to Ben Ali s daughters from a previous marriage.

Among Sarkozy s main interlocutors at the birth of the UfM in 2008 were Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Hussein was tried with the help of a United States led coalition Ben Ali was tried and convicted in absentia, after fleeing to Saudi Arabia.

The protesters are holding Tunisian flags or signs bearing various symbols and slogans rejecting Ben Ali and the authoritarianism he represented in his late years.