[1] A member of the Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties (also called Ettakatol), an initially clandestine party, in January 2007, she participated in the creation of the Arabic weekly Mouwatinoun.
President Ben Ali, who had already been in power for 21 years, announced his intention to run for fifth term.
She was charged with "insubordination, disturbances of public order, obstruction of an official in the performance of his duties, deterioration of the property of others and breach of morality.
"[6] She remained in detention for 200 days, before receiving a pardon on the occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of President Ben Ali's coming to power.
Following the Tunisian revolution and ousting of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, on 14 January 2011, then to the general amnesty law of 19 February 2011 she could finally resume her post and her classes in Kairouan, while having lost the benefit of several years.