Marzouki

A Year After Tunisia’s Revolution, Where Does the Country Stand?

This past Saturday, Tunisians returned to the streets to celebrate the first anniversary of the ouster of President Ben Ali. Tunisia’s current, democratically-elected leader, President Marzouki, declared January 14 a national holiday and granted pardons to 9,000 prisoners and commuted 122 death sentences. The series of protests that  ended Ben Ali’s 23-year reign, largely motivated by […]