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Shokri Belaid
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Feb 07, 2013 12:44am |
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| News Date | Thursday, February 7, 2013 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Shokri Belaid, a lawyer born in 1964 in the Tunisian town of Jebel Jelloud, was a staunch critic of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the country's former authoritarian ruler, who was overthrown as a result of the revolution in 2010-2011.
Belaid denounced the clampdown on miners in 2008 and after the revolution, he was a leading member of the Popular Front, an umbrella organisation of 12 opposition parties, including his own Democratic Patriots.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra said that the coalition is "a gathering of leftists, secular activists totally opposed to the policies of the predominantly Islamist government in Tunisia".
"[Belaid] has been a vocal critic of the government, saying that the outcome of the revolution in Tunisia was the growing power and influence of the Islamists. He's been reiterating the same message of the Islamists being a threat to democracy in the country, and said that what the country needs to have instead is a democratic government which has been deeply entrenched in Tunisia to prevail," Ahelbarra said. |
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