Farhat Rajhi

He is then president of the criminal chamber near the court of appeal of Monastir then public prosecutor near the Court of Cassation [1]. He has also been an Inspector of Judicial Services [1]. On June 1, 2011, he was appointed president of the 20th chamber of the Court of Cassation.

During the 2011 revolution, he was appointed Minister of the Interior of the second Ghannouchi government. On January 31, shortly after his appointment, the ministry was invaded by 2 to 3,000 demonstrators, who threatened to put him to death with General Rachid Ammar, He attributes this coup attempt to supporters of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) and immediately appoints 24 new governors, including five who were not part of the RCD, the party of former President Ben Ali. It also cleans up within the ministry and throughout the police hierarchy, by early retirement 42 senior officials, and announcing the reinstatement of police officers dismissed by injustice. Former Interior Minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem is also arrested on 2 February.

After studying at the Faculty of Law of Tunis (license obtained in 1975), he was first judge in the real estate court, then judge in the Cantonal Court of Tunis (appointed in 1983), Deputy Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Tunis and Vice-President of the Real Estate Court [1]. His career then led him to occupy the positions of President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal of Bizerte, Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Nabeul, then that of Bizerte. He was also president of the Criminal Division of the Tunis Court of Appeal.

Farhat Rajhi (born 29 December 1952, in Tunis) is a Tunisian politician. He was interim minister of interior affairs between January 27 and March 28, 2011, in the government of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi.