FILE PHOTO: Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali addresses participants of the second United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis November 16, 2005. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow in a 2011 uprising triggered the "Arab Spring" revolutions, died in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, days after a free presidential vote in his homeland.
His funeral will take place on Friday in Saudi Arabia, his family lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters.
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