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On May 15, 1996, he was found dead without having served his sentence in an apartment in Tunis "in circumstances still not fully understood."[{{cite web|title=Tunisie : menaces de mort contre des opposants|url=https://www.lematindz.net/news/2901-tunisie-menaces-de-mort-contre-des-opposants.html|author=Ahmed Bennour|author2=Slim Bagga|website=lematindz.net|language=fr|date=24 December 2009|access-date=19 August 2020}}.][{{cite journal|title=De Wassila à Leïla, Premières dames et pouvoir en Tunisie|url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2004-3-page-55.htm|author=[[Sadri Khiari]]|journal=Politique Africaine|pages=55-70|language=fr|date=October 2004|access-date=19 August 2020|issn=0244-7827}}] Tunisian activist [[Sadri Khiari]] suspected he may have been assassinated. He was buried on the same day[{{cite web|title=Tunisie. Moncef Ben Ali est-il mort empoisonné ?|url=http://www.kapitalis.com/fokus/62-national/9690-tunisie-moncef-ben-ali-est-il-mort-empoisonne.html|website=kapitalis.com|language=fr|date=3 May 2012|access-date=19 August 2020}}] at the cemetery of [[Hammam Sousse]]. |
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On 15 May 1996, he was found dead without having served his sentence in an apartment in Tunis "in circumstances still not fully understood."[{{cite web|title=Tunisie : menaces de mort contre des opposants|url=https://www.lematindz.net/news/2901-tunisie-menaces-de-mort-contre-des-opposants.html|author=Ahmed Bennour|author2=Slim Bagga|website=lematindz.net|language=fr|date=24 December 2009|access-date=19 August 2020}}.][{{cite journal|title=De Wassila à Leïla, Premières dames et pouvoir en Tunisie|url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2004-3-page-55.htm|author=[[Sadri Khiari]]|journal=Politique Africaine|pages=55-70|language=fr|date=October 2004|access-date=19 August 2020|issn=0244-7827}}] Tunisian activist [[Sadri Khiari]] suspected he may have been assassinated. He was buried on the same day[{{cite web|title=Tunisie. Moncef Ben Ali est-il mort empoisonné ?|url=http://www.kapitalis.com/fokus/62-national/9690-tunisie-moncef-ben-ali-est-il-mort-empoisonne.html|website=kapitalis.com|language=fr|date=3 May 2012|access-date=19 August 2020}}] at the cemetery of [[Hammam Sousse]]. |
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His body was exhumed on May 3, 2012, so it could be autopsied. |
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His body was exhumed on 3 May 2012, so it could be autopsied. |