11 Facts About Hamadi Jebali

Hamadi Jebali is a Tunisian engineer, Muslim politician, and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013.

Hamadi Jebali was the Secretary-General of the Ennahda Movement, a moderate Islamic party in Tunisia, until he left his party in December 2014 in the course of the 2014 Tunisian presidential election.

Hamadi Jebali comes from a family of six children: four girls and two boys.

Hamadi Jebali was director and editor-in-chief of Al-Fajr, the former weekly newspaper of the Islamist Ennahda Party.

Hamadi Jebali protested that he had no knowledge of the plot's existence, and asserted that he had been tortured, presenting marks on his body for evidence.

Hamadi Jebali engaged in several hunger strikes to protest against the conditions and his conviction.

In February 2006, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Tunisia's independence, Hamadi Jebali was conditionally released.

Since then, Hamadi Jebali has been present in public as the party's secretary-general and spokesman.

Hamadi Jebali met US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

Hamadi Jebali is considered a proponent of the reformist wing of his party.

Ennahda rejected his resignation insisting on a government of politicians and Hamadi Jebali formally resigned after a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki saying it was in the best interests of the country.