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This politically repressive policy caused Human rights groups as well as the French government to call for greater respect for the human rights particularly in the early 1990s when an alleged Islamist coup plot was uncovered and thousands of suspected fundamentalists were imprisoned and many others fled into exile . However , this international pressure on Ben Ali's government has eased significantly after the bombings that were carried by Algerian Islamists in France in the mid¬ 1990s as well as 9/11 . Ben Ali's government thus continued to restrict political parties , censor the press and the internet , limit religious freedoms and impose surveillance and harassment of intellectu¬als , opposition activists and journalists . In spite of that , some politicians see Tunisia now as something of a model of how a moderate , secular and relatively open Arab state can resist fundamentalism , at least effectively . Ben Ali was further successful in the presidential elections in 1989 , 1994 , 1999 and 2004 . In the elections of 2004 , He retained the presidency with 94 . 5% of the vote , his lowest vote total ever . The foreign policy of Tunisia is reputable for its moderation and efforts to facilitate dialogue and reconciliation . From 1979 and for a decade , Tunisia was the chosen location of the headquarters of the Arab League , after the location of the organization was moved from Cairo to protest the 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel . Tunisia also welcomed Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in 1982 after Israel forced them out of Beirut , and the organization remained there till mid-1994 when most of the PLO moved to the West Bank and Gaza under the terms of the Oslo . At the same |
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