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A file photo taken on March 26, 2010 shows Sakhr el-Materi, son-in-law of ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, speaking during an interview with AFP in Tunis. AFP PHOTO/FETHI BELAID
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The Seychelles have granted a year’s asylum to the son-in-law of Tunisia’s deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, officials said late Monday.
In December he travelled briefly to the Seychelles, leaving after he was questioned by police for trying to enter on an expired diplomatic passport, but returned to Victoria in January.
Tunisian officials have said they would do everything to get Materi extradited.
Ben Ali and his close family used to go on holiday to the Seychelles in secret prior to the revolution.
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