According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs ex-President of Tunisia Ben Ali (83) died.

Deposed leader of Tunesia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalised for “a health crisis” in one of Saudi Arabia hospitals, where he has lived in exile since the revolution of 2011, according to Arab media reports.

The former president’s lawyer Mouni Ben Salha told Mosaique radio onthat Ben Ali’s daughter called him to say her father is “very ill” after years of treatment for prostate cancer, the Associated Press news agency reported. The lawyer said Ben Ali is in treatment in a hospital in Jeddah.