Mokhtar Yahyaoui is a human rights activist and a Tunisian judge. He was born on 1 June 1952 in the village of Qasr al-Haddada in southern Tunisia. He died on September 22, 2015 in the Zekraya area of ​​Ghazala, Bizerte state.

Was isolated in 2001 from the judiciary and confiscated his property and narrow it after sending a letter to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali criticizing the status of the Tunisian judiciary. After the Tunisian revolution, on March 23, 2011, the administrative court overturned its sentence in 2001 and returned to the judicial profession.

Following the Tunisian Revolution, he was a member of the Supreme Commission to achieve the goals of the revolution, political reform and democratic transition in 2011. Appointed in February 2012 as Chairman of the National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data.

His daughter is a blogger and an activist, Amira Al Yahyaoui, and his nephew is blogger Zouheir Yahiaoui. He is the first Internet martyr in Tunisia after he was tortured in 2005.

He died in a preliminary medical report following a heart attack on 22 September 2015 in the Teskraya district of Ghazal, Bizerte state. He was taken to the regional hospital Habib Bouqatfa in Bizerte and then to the Hospital of Nicole in Tunis.

The body of Mokhtar Yahyaoui was buried on 23 September, and his funeral was attended by most of the Tunisian political and trade union.

The judges of justice in all courts in Tunisia stopped a minute of silence before the start of the sessions, in the spirit of Judge Mokhtar Yahiaoui, according to the Tunisian Judges Association. This stand is a tribute to Judge Mokhtar Yahiaoui's struggle before the Tunisian revolution for the independence of the judiciary and the eradication of corruption.

The second category of the Order of the Republic of Tunisia was crowned by the President of the Tunisian Republic, Béji Caid Sibsi, after his death on 7 October 2015.