Ben Ali Trial Date Set

Al Jazeera reports that Ben Ali will be tried in Absentia in Tunisia on June 20. It has been important for the interim government to bring Ben Ali to trial, among other reasons to demonstrate its independence from the former regime. For that reason, the government has been trying, without success, to extradite Ben Ali and his wife Leila Tribelsi from Saudi Arabia. Now it appears they’ve, um, sort of given up on that idea.

Not sure if the trial will still be going on when I arrive in Tunis on the 26th.