Abdallah Kallel () (born 7 December 1943, Sfax) is a Tunisian politician. He was the President of the Chamber of Advisors from 16 August 2005 until 25 January 2011. Biography Coming from a modest family of five (his father is a farmer and his mom, a homemaker), he joined the first class of the National School of Administration (ENAM) after a master's degree in economics from the Faculty of Law and Economics of Tunis. During the presidency of Habib Bourguiba, he was successively attached cabinet to the Ministry of the Interior and Equipment (1972), chief of staff of Defense Ministers Abdallah Farhat and Rachid Sfar. Terminated in 1980, he taught for thirteen months at ENAM then became CEO of a company specializing in building. On 11 April 1988, he became Minister of Defense before replacing General Abdelhamid Escheikh at the head of the Ministry of the Interior from 17 February 1991 to 24 January 1995, in a context of struggle against Islamism. He became an advisor to President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he found the Ministry of Defense from June 13, 1996 to January 22, 1997, moved to the Ministry of Justice in 1997-1999 before becoming Minister of the Interior for the second time November 17, 1999. On January 23, 2001, following the filing of a complaint of torture against him, President Ben Ali decided to temporarily remove him from politics. Three years later, he was appointed in January 2004 as President of the Economic and Social Council. After the creation of the House of Councilors and its installation, he was elected on August 16. Treasurer of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) from 1988, he was a member of his political bureau and its central committee until his removal from the party on January 18, 2011. On February 14, 2001, he was at the Cantonal Hospital of Geneva where he underwent a triple coronary bypass after having a discomfort. While Hatem Ben Salem was seen by an employee of the hospital, he called Abdennacer Nait-Liman, a Tunisian political refugee living in Geneva since 1995 and president of an association of victims of torture in Tunisia. He informed Éric Sottas, director of the World Organization against Torture in Geneva, and lawyer François Françoisz, and lodged a complaint against Kallel for "grievous bodily harm, kidnapping, insults, endangering the health, constraints and abuse of authority"; Naït-Liman was indeed tortured in the premises of