Abdelkarim Harouni ( aeb, عبد الكريم الهاروني) is a
Tunisia
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n politician. He serves as the
Minister of Transport
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under
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
Hamadi Jebali
Hamadi Jebali ( ar, حمادي الجبالي, '; born 12 January 1949) is a Tunisian engineer, Muslim politician and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013. He was the Secretary-General of the Ennahda Move ...
.
[Sana Ajmi]
Abdelkarim Harouni
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Biography
Early life
Abdelkarim Harouni was born on December 17, 1960, in
La Marsa
La Marsa ( aeb, المرسى ') is a coastal town in far north eastern Tunisia near the capital Tunis. The population is estimated as 92,987, as of 2014. The old summer capital of pre-colonial Tunisia, it is today a popular vacation spot for many ...
.
Politics
He was a founding member and twice Secretary General of the
students' union
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Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie
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* Trade union, an organization of workers
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(UGET).
He also served as Secretary General of the Freedom and Justice Association.
In 1990, he became the editor of ''
al Fajr
''Al Fajr'' (Arabic الفجر; ''The Dawn'') is an independent Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1974 the daily is one of the oldest publications in the country.
History and profile
''Al F ...
'', the flagship publication of the
Ennahda Movement
The Ennahda Movement ( ar, حركة النهضة, Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah; french: link=no, Mouvement Ennahdha), also known as the Renaissance Party or simply known as Ennahda, is a self-defined Islamic democratic political party in Tunisia.
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.
He was arrested in 1990, and sentenced to prison in 1992.
He was tortured and subjected to
solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which the inmate lives in a single cell with little or no meaningful contact with other people. A prison may enforce stricter measures to control contraband on a solitary prisoner and use additi ...
.
He was released on November 7, 2007, but he still fell prey to the police's intimidation and harassment.
On 20 December 2011, he joined the
Jebali Cabinet
The first cabinet of Tunisian Head of Government Hamadi Jebali was presented on 20 December 2011. Jebali has been appointed by interim President Moncef Marzouki, who had been elected by the National Constituent Assembly, a body constituted to dr ...
as Minister of Transportation.
He was a member of the
Constituent Assembly of Tunisia
The Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, or National Constituent Assembly (NCA) was the body in charge of devising a new Tunisian constitution for the era after the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his Constitutional Democratic Rally (R ...
until he resigned in April 2012.
''Business News'', 12/04/2012
References
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1960 births
Living people
Government ministers of Tunisia
People from La Marsa
Ennahda politicians
Tunisian Muslims