At end-March a court rejected an appeal by the RCD against a March 9th ruling that it should be dissolved and its assets seized for violating the constitution by setting up a one-party regime and inciting the violence that followed Mr Ben Ali's flight. The dissolution prevents the party from putting forward candidates in future elections, but does not bar RCD members from standing as independents or as representatives of another political party. Three more senior associates of Mr Ben Ali have been detained pending trial. They are Abdelaziz Ben Dhia, a former defence minister and Mr Ben Ali's senior political adviser, Abdelwahab Abdullah, a former presidential spokesman and foreign minister, and Abdullah Kallel, who over the years has held the interior, defence and justice portfolios. Mohammed Trabelsi, a brother of Mr Ben Ali's wife, has been jailed for customs offences. Portraits of Mr Ben Ali have vanished, and long-banned books on corruption and human rights abuses under the former president have appeared in bookshops, replacing ones describing him as Tunisia's saviour. The central square and street in Tunis have been renamed, respectively, Place January 14th 2011, after the date on which Mr Ben Ali fled Tunisia, and Avenue Mohammed Bouazizi, after the young man who triggered the revolt by setting himself alight in Sidi Bouzid. The cafés of Tunis are alive with political debate, something unthinkable in Mr Ben Ali's police state.