The Tunisian government on Friday said it would allow the country’s late autocrat Zine-Abidine Ben-Ali to be buried in his homeland after his death in exile in Saudi Arabia.
Ben Ali died on Thursday at a Saudi hospital at the age of 83, according to his lawyer.
A 2011 popular revolt had forced Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia.
“The government will respond to a request for burying the ex-president in Tunisia in case his family asks for this,” an unnamed source in the government told Tunisia’s state news agency TAP late Thursday.
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