Ex-Tunisian Dictator Gets Another Prison Sentence 2.48K Jeff Neumann 07/05/11 05:05AM Filed to: Briefly Briefly Tunisia Polidicks Crime Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali Appic Last month, deposed Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced in absentia to 35 years in prison for being a piece of shit. And yesterday, he got an additional 15 years for illegal possession of drugs and weapons.