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It was one of the voices of the Jasmine Revolution. The famous Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni , leader of the uprising that ended the dictatorship of Ben Ali in 2011, died Monday at age 36, sources around her reported. The young woman suffered from a chronic disease.
Human rights activist, the young woman suffered from chronic illness for many years. After the revolution that expelled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to power, his name was mentioned for the Nobel Peace Prize at the end of 2011.
Before the fall of the dictatorship and despite the risks, Lina Ben Mhenni reported for years on the internet the authoritarian drift of Ben Ali's regime.
To feed his blog, A Tunisian Girl, he traveled through many cities in the interior of the country and, with his small camera, broadcast the first manifestations of anger of the inhabitants against the regime via social networks. He was the first person to travel to Sidi Bouzid, the city where street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi was immolated in December 2010, the outbreak that triggered the Jasmine Revolution. His chronicle in Arabic, French and English was the text that opened the eyes of the population and aroused the interest of the world.
Lina Ben Mhenni, a professor of Linguistics and English in Tunisia, received the El Mundo International Journalism Award in 2011, an award that highlighted the importance of citizen and free journalism in Arab springs.
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