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Silencing online speech in Tunisia


Blocking web 2.0 websites (Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook) and barring access to local outspoken websites and blogs is the most obvious way of cracking down of the online free speech in Tunisia. It should be emphasized, however, that this is only one tool in the regime’s hand. Tunisia has adapted to the web 2.0 revolution by developing a broader strategy composed of a wide range of instruments [...]


20Aug2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
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Je ne suis pas le premier journaliste tunisien à subir ce sort, mon espoir est d’être le dernier


Condamné en décembre dernier, à un an de prison pour “outrage à fonctionnaire dans l’exercice de ses fonctions”, “atteinte aux bonnes moeurs” et “refus de présenter ses papiers d’identité” suite à un contrôle de police, le journaliste tunisien Slim Boukhdir a recouvré sa liberté le 21 juillet dernier. Dans un entretien exclusif accordé à APN, [...]


19Aug2008 | Slim Boukhdir | 0 comments | Continued
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You Still Can’t Write About Muhammad


Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha’s life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a [...]


18Aug2008 | Nawaat.org | 7 comments | Continued
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Tunisian Government Faces Growing Dissent in Mining Region


The Gafsa revolt alone epitomizes Tunisia’s many ills: youth unemployment, extreme poverty in the peripheral regions of the country, nepotism, government infiltration of labour union organizations, a lack of any room for free expression and representation (both labour union as well as political), and finally a security approach to all protests.


17Aug2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia Caucus Co-Chair Calls Despot Moderate and Wise


Only a handful of Internet publications and small-circulation opposition papers have attempted to seriously criticize the government or hold it accountable. But journalists writing for these outlets have been placed under surveillance, assaulted by plainclothes police, had their phone and Internet lines cut, and been prevented from leaving the country.


13Aug2008 | CPJ | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia : - جواباتي كثرت يا ميمة


Dear Mr President Z.A.B.A
I am pleased to receive your message from pactejeunesse.tn- pleased because I, as many other young Tunisians, am now full with hope- a hope for a president willing to listen to our cry for help and act upon it.
Please allow me to start my letter by thanking you for all what you [...]


9Aug2008 | Bachbouch | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: torturing detainees


In spite of this, Tunisia is not widely perceived as a country in which serious human rights violations are committed. Indeed, during a state visit to the country in April 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised the Tunisian government’s efforts in fighting terrorism and declared that “the sphere of liberties” in the country was improving.


6Aug2008 | Amnesty International | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: Where are the State Funerals?


Eight Tunisians were among the 197 bodies handed over by Israel to Lebanon, in the latest prisoner swap between the two countries. Tunisian bloggers are calling for the return of their remains to their country - and honoring the dead in a state funeral.
Tunisian blogger Sami ben Gharbia hails the fighters, killed in [...]


5Aug2008 | Amira Al Hussaini | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisie : Libération Du journaliste Slim Boukhdir


Reporters sans frontières a exprimé son soulagement à l’annonce de la libération, le 21 juillet 2008, de Slim Boukhdir, intervenue quatre mois avant le terme de sa peine. Le journaliste indépendant a souffert de conditions de détention très difficiles à la prison civile de Sfax (230 km au sud de Tunis), où il était incarcéré depuis le 26 novembre 2007.


21Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Knife crime: why Hamouda Bessaad will always haunt me


New figures reveal that more than 20,000 knife crimes were committed in the UK last year. Peter Evans was shocked to discover he knew one of the latest victims
His full name, which not many people realised, was Hamouda Bessaad. When I heard it on the BBC news last month, I didn’t make the connection to [...]


18Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Fighting for press freedom in Tunisia


Every once in a while you run across people whose courage makes you ask of yourself if you would act equally heroic should you find yourself in their shoes. That certainly was the question I kept asking myself during my recent trip to Tunisia.
I was there as part of a two person delegation from the [...]


16Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Activists Meet the Academy: GVO Summit Day 1, Session 4


Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create better internet access while maintaining anonymity. The session, which carried the title “Front Line Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge,” provided hands-on information for internet users from repressive states and those with freer governments.
Nart [...]


13Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights?


(Brussels, 11 July) The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) initiative, to be endorsed on 13 July, may lead to a serious breach of the EU’s commitments to raise human rights concerns in all bilateral relations, says Amnesty International.
The fact that there is no reference to human rights in the current proposal effectively means that increased [...]


11Jul2008 | Amnesty International | 0 comments | Continued
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Press Freedom Groups Raise Tunisian Concerns With French President


A coalition of international press freedom organisations has asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy not to underestimate human rights violations in Tunisia as he seeks to create a Union for the Mediterranean at a summit meeting in Paris on Sunday, 13 July.
The World Association of Newspapers and 17 press freedom organisation wrote to Mr Sarkozy on [...]


10Jul2008 | WAN | 0 comments | Continued
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