President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zine El Abidine Ben Ali">Zine El Abidine Ben Ali</a> of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a>.