Belhassen Trabelsi: Canada

Tunisia Dept: But Trabelsi, the so-called "Godfather" of Tunisia, was nowhere to be seen, according to Montreal Gazette. The Canadian government stripped him of his residency status days later, however, because he had not lived in Canada for at least two of the previous five years and tunisian Montrealers arrived early and in large numbers to watch Belhassen Trabelsi testify on Monday as his long-awaited hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board finally began. The brother-in-law of deposed Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Trabelsi has been a permanent resident in Canada since the 1990s. He fled to Montreal in January 2011 shortly after the uprising in Tunisia began against the former dictator and his extended family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.