Chokri Belaid

Chokri Belaïd
شكري بلعيد
Chokri Belaïd in 2012
Born(1964-11-26)26 November 1964
Died6 February 2013(2013-02-06) (aged 48)
El Menzah, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
Cause of deathAssassination (multiple gunshots)
Resting placeAl Jallez
36°47′10″N 10°11′04″E / 36.78611°N 10.18444°E / 36.78611; 10.18444
NationalityTunisian
Political partyDemocratic Patriots' Movement
SpouseBasma Khalfaoui

Chokri Belaïd (Arabic: شكري بلعيد, romanizedShukrī Bil‘īd; 26 November 1964 – 6 February 2013), also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement.[1][2] Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the then Islamist-led Tunisian government.[3] On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis.[1] As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Profile: Shokri Belaid". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Tunisia PM to form new government". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
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