Mokhtar Trifi
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politician
Mokhtar Trifi | |
|---|---|
 Mokhtar Trifi (2018) | |
| President of Tunisian Human Rights League, (2000–2011) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Profession | Human right activist politician |
Mokhtar Trifi (Arabic: مختار الطريفي), born in 1950 in Hajeb El Ayoun near Kairouan, is a Tunisian lawyer. From 2000 to 2011, he chaired the Tunisian Human Rights League.[1]
Education and activities
Mokhtar Trifi was born in the rural municipality of Hajeb El Ayoun in 1950. He was from a wealthy farmer's family, so as a child he did not have to participate in farm work. Instead he and his brothers lived with their uncle to attend school.[2]
His grandfather, who was a vigorous nationalist, had to go underground to escape the La Main Rouge. Mokhtar followed his education and entered Kairouan High School . After graduating he began to study law at the Tunis campus. He participated in many student meetings, that led to his arrest in November 1973. After completing his military service, he could not resume his studies for he had been dismissed from all Tunisian universities because of its commitment to the General Union of Tunisian Students.[3] Mokhtar Trifi's professional career began in the field of journalism. In 1976, he was a freelancer in the daily Assabah which he returned in 1982 on the grounds of his serious activity. He then became the editor of the newspaper Le Maghreb and the weekly Al Mawkif but "the difficulties of publication made him move away from journalism".[4]
Mokhtar Trifi could, eventually, finish his studies and became a lawyer.[5] He thus led to defend trade unionists or opponents, left or Islamists, in the government of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.[6]