All Posts Tagged With: "Tunisia"
The Risk of Facebook Activism in the New Arab Public Sphere
Over at The Arabist, Issandr El Amrani ruminates on Facebook’s role in Middle Eastern politics, a subject I’ve had my eye on for quite some time. Drawing on the recent example of Egyptian reformer El Baradei and his enormous Facebook following, El Amrani marvels at the level of Facebook use for activism in the [...]
15Mar2010 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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
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
بنزرت: عمّ علي عيدك مقموع
30Nov2009 | La rédaction | 7 comments | Continued
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
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
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
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 | 39 comments | Continued
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
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 | 17 comments | Continued
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
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
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
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
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
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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- Le Deep Packet Inspection : pour mieux vous (a)servir ?
- تقرير حول واقع الانترنت في تونس
- Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages
- Will Arabic domain names help censorship, create ‘cyber-ghettos’?
- Internet et la reconfiguration de l’espace public tunisien : le rôle de la diaspora
- Arab Facebook : The Internet’s role in Politics in the Middle East
- Zouhaïer Makhlouf : Le procès de 8 minutes de liberté d’expression sur l’espace virtuel
- تونس تؤكد حجب الجزيرة نت
- Cyber-répression en Tunisie : Le blog collectif Nawaat.org, de nouveau la cible des pirates.
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