Mohamed Moncef Marzouki is a Tunisian politician who served as the fifth president of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014.
16 Facts About Moncef Marzouki
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Moncef Marzouki's father, being a supporter of Salah Ben Youssef, emigrated to Morocco in the late 1950s because of political pressures.
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Moncef Marzouki finished his secondary education in Tangier, where he obtained the Baccalaureat in 1961.
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Moncef Marzouki then went to study medicine at the University of Strasbourg in France.
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In 1993, Moncef Marzouki was a founding member of the National Committee for the Defense of Prisoners of Conscience, but he resigned after it was taken over by supporters of the government.
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Moncef Marzouki was arrested on several occasions on charges relating to the propagation of false news and working with banned Islamist groups.
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Moncef Marzouki was the first president who was not an heir to the legacy of the country's founding president, Habib Bourguiba.
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In March 2014, President Moncef Marzouki lifted the state of emergency that had been in place since the outbreak of the 2011 revolution, and a top military chief said soldiers stationed in some of the country's most sensitive areas would return to their barracks.
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The decree from President Moncef Marzouki said the state of emergency ordered in January 2011 is lifted across the country immediately.
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On 25 June 2015, Moncef Marzouki participated in the Freedom Flotilla III to the Gaza Strip.
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Moncef Marzouki was greeted by a delegation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, but he declined to talk with them.
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In November 2021, Moncef Marzouki was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Tunisian government for endangering state security.
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On 29 December 2021, Moncef Marzouki vowed to return to Tunisia and "overthrow the incumbent regime".
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In January 2022, Moncef Marzouki was among 19 predominantly high-ranking politicians to be referred to court for trial by the Tunisian judiciary for "electoral violations" allegedly committed during the 2019 presidential elections.
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In 2022 Moncef Marzouki was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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From a first marriage, Moncef Marzouki has two daughters: Myriam and Nadia.