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Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages


First, governments blocked Blogspot. Then they blocked Facebook, and then Twitter. And just when technophiles all over the globe started groaning, a couple of governments got a bit wiser to social media and, rather than block the entire platform for the transgressions of one user, began blocking individual accounts instead. Notably, this has happened in [...]


5Jan2010 | Nawaat.org | 1 comment | Continued
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Tunisia: Muzzling the muzzled


The six-month jail sentence handed to Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik by a Tunis court on 26 November was an attempt to settle scores against one of the most defiant critics of a regime that has been unrelenting in its determination to eradicate independent journalism.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s war on the independent press [...]


6Dec2009 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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بنزرت: عمّ علي عيدك مقموع


اختلط السياسي والحقوقي والإنساني والواجب، واجب معايدة شيخ المناضلي علي بن سالم الذي قاوم الاستعمار بشدّة وحُكم عليه بالإعدام وعاش في ليبيا لاجئا ونُكِّل به في سجون بورقيبة مدّة إحدى عشر سنة منها سبعة سنوات مصفّدًا بالسلاسل والأغلال إلى حائط تحت عمق 100قدم بين كراكة غار الملح وبرج الرومي، وتعرّض إلى محاولة اغتيال سنة 2000 من طرف البوليس

30Nov2009 | La rédaction | 7 comments | Continued
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Presidential Election in Tunisia : Democracy His Way


What are we to make of it when Ben Ali, Tunisia’s much venerated president and ruler of the Palace of Carthage, is prepared to accept only 89.62 per cent of the vote? And this from someone more used to commanding the kind of figures associated with voting in Soviet times. A commentary by Hamid Skif
President [...]


7Nov2009 | Nawaat.org | 1 comment | Continued
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Tunisie : Arrestation d’un activiste connu pour avoir publié un reportage vidéo en ligne sur l’environnement


Le 20 octobre 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, un militant des droits humains et correspondant du site web Assabil Online [en arabe, comme les liens suivants] a été arrêté pour avoir publié un reportage vidéo en ligne sur la pollution environnementale à Nabeul (Dar Chaabane El Fehri), une ville de la côte nord-est de la Tunisie.


30Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 3 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: Prominent Activist Arrested For Environmental Video Report Published Online


On October 20th, 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, a Tunisia Human rights activist and correspondent of Assabil Online website has been arrested for publishing a video report online about the environmental pollution in Nabeul (Dar Chaabane El Fehri), a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia. [...]


27Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 1 comment | Continued
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Tunisie: Résultat du scrutin présidentiel 2009


Voici les résultats du scrutin présidentiel du 25 octobre 2009. L’analyse de ces mystérieux chiffres est à suivre.

En attendant, je dénonce cette mascarade électorale, et je demande à son excellence Mr. Le président Ben Ali de refuser catégoriquement ces résultats, et de crier fort à la fraude. 89,62% ! C’est clair comme de l’eau de [...]


26Oct2009 | Centrist | 38 comments | Continued
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Elections Tunisiennes : Constats amers


Nos gouvernants, qui sont censés parler et agir en notre nom, devraient être aussi les garants et les vecteurs d’un ensemble de principes et de valeurs qui nous unissent et nous définissent en tant que citoyens tunisiens. Aujourd’hui, je n’aime pas l’image de nous-mêmes que nous renvoient nos gouvernants, et ne me reconnais pas dans [...]


16Oct2009 | Carpe Diem | 11 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: A country under siege “فعلى الدنيا السلام” [video]


We must put an end to tyranny and humiliation. Tunisian taxpayers’ money is being spent to maintain the status quo of the oppression machine. Real progress is dramatically slowed down due to the waste and mismanagement of our money.
Tunisia does fit to stand next to the civilized and free nations. We have room to grow, [...]


28Sep2009 | Centrist | 16 comments | Continued
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The Maghreb and the Global Economic Crisis: When Does the Tunnel End?


Due to capital flows restrictions, shallow financial markets and conservative exchange rate policies, the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—escaped the first wave of the global crisis, unlike most developing regions. However, it has been severely affected by dramatic falls in commodity prices, world trade, remittances, [...]


17Sep2009 | Nawaat.org | 2 comments | Continued
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IFJ Protests over Tunisian Police Violence at Journalists’ Headquarters


The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today protested to the Tunisian government over the action of police who laid siege to the offices of Tunisian Syndicate of Journalists and assaulted the union’s President after he tried to enter the building.
“This is heavy-handed and violent interference in journalism,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. “It is [...]


9Sep2009 | Fed. Int. des Journalistes | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisie : la direction de la FIJ va se pencher sur “l’ombre de l’influence politique” qui plane sur le syndicat


La Fédération Internationale des Journalistes prévoit de mener une enquête approfondie des événements concernant une réunion controversée organisée il y a quelques jours et durant laquelle une direction pro-gouvernementale [...]


27Aug2009 | Fed. Int. des Journalistes | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: ‘Plus ca change’ on human rights, says Amnesty-New report


[...] Torture remains pervasive in detention centres, particularly those of the State Security Department, the organisation warned, and statements allegedly obtained under torture are being accepted by courts as evidence to convict defendants. Incommunicado detention is also being covered up with officials falsifying arrest documents. [...]


20Aug2009 | Amnesty International | 0 comments | Continued
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Internet Filtering in Tunisia - The OpenNet Initiative Report


Although Tunisia has actively sought to develop its information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, the government continues to pervasively block a range of Web content and has used nontechnical means to impede journalists and human rights activists from doing their work. The filtering of political content and restrictions on online activity has [...]


12Aug2009 | OpenNet Initiative | 3 comments | Continued
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The thwarted Tunisian right of return


Held in Geneva in late June, the conference of the International Association of Tunisian Expatriates (IATE) provoked the ire of the Tunisian authorities. Several human-rights activists and lawyers were intimidated or assaulted by plainclothes police at the Tunis-Carthage airport just for having attended the Geneva meeting and backing the basic rights of hundreds of exiled Tunisians to return home.


13Jul2009 | Bassam Bounenni | 1 comment | Continued
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Tunisie : Une rumeur qui vaut 8 mois de Prison


La dame, professeur universitaire à la retraite, accusée de diffuser de fausses informations via le net (facebook) rapportant des cas d’enlèvement d’enfants et causant un trouble public s’est vue infligée une peine de 8 d’emprisonnement par le tribunal de 1ère instance de Tunis (8ème section pénale).
En marge du droit et bizarrement, depuis l’annonce de l’arrestation [...]


7Jul2009 | Nawaat.org | 8 comments | Continued
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