Background
Abdelkarim Harouni was born on December 17, 1960 in Louisiana Marsa.
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Abdelkarim Harouni
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École nationale d"ingénieurs de Tunis.
Career
He serves as the Minister of Transport under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. Politics
He was a founding member and twice Secretary General of the students" union Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie (UGET). He also served as Secretary General of the Freedom and Justice Association.
He was arrested in 1990, and sentenced to prison in 1992.
He was tortured and subjected to solitary confinement. He was released on November 7, 2007, but he still fell prey to the police"s intimidation and harassment.
On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Transportation.
Politics
In 1990, he became the editor of al Fajr, the flagship publication of the Ennahda Movement.
Membership
He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia until he resigned in April 2012.
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Political Party
Ennahda Movement