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Tunisie : Les autorités tunisiennes confirment par les actes les accusations d’Amnesty International

« Il est grand temps que les autorités cessent de rendre un hommage de pure forme aux droits humains et qu’elles prennent des mesures concrètes pour mettre fin aux atteintes commises », déclarait voilà à peine une dizaine de jours Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, directrice adjointe du programme Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord d’Amnesty International dans [...]

Tunisia: Abuses continue despite official denial

A former prisoner and alleged torture victim whose case was cited in Amnesty International’s recent report on human rights abuses in Tunisia, and two Tunisian lawyers who shared their experience as defence lawyers at a Paris press conference organized by Amnesty International to launch this report, have since been subjected to what appears to be [...]

Preparing the Battlefield : The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are [...]

Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them

WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued [...]

Net activism rattles Arabs

Facebook, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change.
Squeezing out MySpace as the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the population of most countries), it appears to be the most popular meeting place in the [...]

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M. Sarkozy devant la Knesset

Le discours de M. Sarkozy, en ce jour devant la Knesset, ne dévoile rien sur une nouvelle politique française à fortes doses de relents coloniaux ni sur le caractère extrêmement nocif du personnage qui a pris les rênes d’une France sous l’hypnose d’un napoléonisme nouvelle version, avec beaucoup de spectacles mais certainement conduisant aux mêmes résultats ou encore des plus désastreux [...]