Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936–2019) Tunisian politician
Regarding to restrictions of free press, of Tunisia, (2001). http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,CPJ,,TUN,,47c56649c,0.html.
“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), P. 155.
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