Tunisian justice issued an arrest warrant against the widow of Yasser Arafat, Suha Arafat, sued, according to Tunisian media, for corruption.
The arrest warrant was issued by the Court of First Instance in Tunis, according to the spokesman for the Department of Justice.
According to Tunisian news websites, Mrs. Arafat would be prosecuted for corruption in a case connected to the “International School of Carthage”, founded in 2005 in collaboration with Leila Trabelsi, wife of deposed Tunisian President Zinelabidine Ben Ali.
Suha Arafat was then stripped of her Tunisian nationality and expelled from the country by Ben Ali after a dispute with her associate Leila Trabelsi, so she moved to Malta.
Yasser Arafat’s widow was the secretary of the head of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine during his exile in Tunisia between 1982 and 1994.
After Arafat's death in 2004, Suha returned to Tunisia after having obtained the Tunisian nationality.