Chokri Belaid

Chokri Belaïd
Chokri Belaïd
شكري بلعيد
	Chokri Belaïd in 2012
Born	26 November 1964; Djebel Jelloud, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
Died	6 February 2013 (aged 48); El Menzah, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
Cause of death	Assassination (multiple gunshots)
Resting place	Al Jallez; 36°47′10″N 10°11′04″E / 36.78611°N 10.18444°E
Nationality	Tunisian
Political party	Democratic Patriots' Movement
Spouse	Basma Khalfaoui

Chokri Belaïd (Arabic: شكري بلعيد, romanized: Shukrī Bil‘īd; 26 November 1964 – 6 February 2013), also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement.^[1]^[2] Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the then Islamist-led Tunisian government.^[3] On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis.^[1] As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Profile: Shokri Belaid". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Tunisia PM to form new government". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
^ Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[AJE-1] "Profile: Shokri Belaid". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

[aljazeera-2] "Tunisia PM to form new government". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

[BBC-3] Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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