Sihem Badi

[2] She received a PhD in Medical Studies from the University of Paris.

[2] As of 2011[update], she was a member of the Congress for the Republic political party.

[2] In 1992, she was sentenced to two years in prison after she condemned former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, whereupon she went to France in exile.

[3] On December 20, 2011, she joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Women's Affairs.

[4] On March 25 2013, protesters congregated to demand Badi's resignation after she blamed a nursery caretaker's rape of a three-year-old girl on the girl's family.

Badi in 2012