After teaching at a high school in Beja, he was appointed in 1980 as director of the North West Development Office, a position he held for seven years.
Following the 2011 Tunisian revolution, which is progressively spreading across the country, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announces his dismissal on January 12, 2011; Ahmed Friaâ replaces him.
On June 13, 2012, he obtained a dismissal by the military court of Kef for his role in the crackdown of January 2011 in Thala and Kasserine.
On July 19, the military court of Tunis sentenced him to fifteen years in prison in the largest trial of the martyrs and wounded of the revolution, those of greater Tunis and five other governorates, sentence brought back on appeal to three years of prison on April 12, 2014.
On April 30, 2013, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for intentional homicide and attempted murder in the case of a martyr and two wounded in the governorate of Sfax.