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Leader Flees
Tunisian ruler Zine el Abidine Ben Ali flees the country by planefor Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. -
Day of Rage
Anti-government "Day of Rage" in the Gulf state of Bahrain, inspired by popular upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia. -
Rally for Constitutional Democracy
A Tunisian court dissolves Ben Ali's Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD) -
tape recording
A tape recording by Osama Bin Laden is relased posthumouslyon Islamist militant websites -
Radical Change
Six months after fall of Zine El Abidine Tunisians discuss efforts to implement radical change, both social and political. -
In Jail
Tunisian court sentences Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi, in absentia, to 35 years in jail for theft and for illegally possessing large sums of cash.
