the Ministry of the Interior between April 22 and June 1, 1992. If he had testified eight months earlier in the book Torture in Tunisia. 1987–2000. Plea for abolition and against impunity, the name of Kallel was not mentioned. The complaint was dismissed in February 2001 and then appealed on May 22, 2007. This initiative was a first for the Swiss prosecutor's office but Kallel leaves the territory in time thanks to the diplomatic passport that confers on him his rank of minister. Sottas accused him of being "responsible for the torture of thousands of people". On January 23, 2011, after the revolution, he was placed under house arrest before resigning from the presidency of the House of Councilors two days later. He was arrested on 12 March, following a complaint filed by a group of 24 lawyers for a charge of embezzlement within the RCD. On the 14th of March his property was seized by decree; he was then interrogated on May 14, concluded by a warrant of committal. On 21 May, the State Litigation Officer lodged an urgent complaint for the freezing of the assets of Kallel's properties; his property was sequestrated three days later. Abdallah Kallel was hospitalized on July 22 at the military hospital of Tunis, in a state considered quite serious by his family, following a cardiac malaise; this one points out its conditions of detention to explain the deterioration of its state of health. On 29 November, the Criminal Chamber of the Tunisian Permanent Military Court of First Instance sentenced him to four years in prison in the case of Barraket Essahel, reduced to two years in prison on appeal on 7 April 2012. On July 10, 2013, he was released at the end of his sentence. References 1943 births Living people People from Sfax Socialist Destourian Party politicians Democratic Constitutional Rally politicians Justice ministers of Tunisia Members of the Chamber of Advisors Interior ministers of Tunisia prisoners and detainees of Tunisia