Mokhtar Yahyaoui Mokhtar Yahyaoui Mokhtar Yahyaoui () 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. 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,
Lina Ben Mhenni Lina Ben Mhenni Lina Ben Mhenni (Arabic: لينا بن مهني) (born May 22, 1983) is a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and assistant lecturer (i.e. instructor) in linguistics at Tunis University. Lina Ben Mhenni has been awarded the Deutsche Welle International Blog Award and El Mundo's International Journalism Prize Ben Mhenni's blog, "A Tunisian Girl", is written in Arabic, English, and French. During the rule of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ben Mhenni was one of the few bloggers to blog using her real name rather than adopting a pseudonym to protect her identity. Her blog, as well