Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A French court has refused to extradite the daughter of Tunisia’s late deposed president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is wanted in her home country over alleged financial crimes. The Paris Appeals Court said its ruling on Wednesday was based on Tunisia’s failure to respond to a request for guarantees of a trial by an independent and impartial court. Halima Ben Ali was arrested in September last year at Tunisia’s request, as she was about to board a flight from Paris to Dubai, on charges of laundering assets gained through her father’s rule of the North African country from 1987 to 2011. Ali’s lawyer, Samia Maktouf, has argued that sending her home would be tantamount to ‘a death sentence.'” (04/02/26)