TUNIS: Tunisia has stripped the widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of Tunisian citizenship, officials said Tuesday.
A formal decree published Aug. 2 in Tunisia s official register indicated that 44-year-old Suha Arafat, who was born in Jerusalem and became a naturalized Tunisian last year, had lost her citizenship.
No explanation was provided, nor was any reference made to the Arafats 12-year-old daughter Zahwa, who became a Tunisian citizen on the same day as her mother.
Suha Arafat was believed to have left Tunisia, and news reports suggested she was in Malta. She had lived in Tunisia since Yasser Arafat died at a suburban Paris hospital in November 2004. AP
