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Tunisia’s historical commitment to women’s rights is being used by Ben Ali as a smokescreen for the persecution they now suffer Tunisia’s adoption – 54 years ago this month – of the most protective women’s rights legislation in the Arab world is increasingly used by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali as a veil to [...]
In november 2010 Tunisia’s president will celebrate his 23 years in power. Unless he tweaks the constitution again, this should be this final term as the upper age limit in 75. Ben Ali has been president of Tunisia since 7 Novembre 1987. In the Economist’s 2008 Democracy Index Tunisia is classified as an authoritarian regim [...]
We learned that the censorship imposed illegally on hundreds of Tunisian blogs and websites, both Tunisians and foreigners, was “shut off” temporarily for few hours on Monday, August 16, 2010. And although the information on this brief lifting of the censorship in the country is still contradictory – as some claimed they had no access [...]
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This video mashup is about the ban of Flickr, the popular and one of the best online photo-sharing website, in Tunisia since April 28th, 2010. The clip is inspired by Anthony Hopkins’s film “Slipstream“, especially with the little flash cuts in the scenes. The burning of the ‘Mona Lisa’ scene is from Kurt Wimmer’s “Equilibrium” [...]
Residents and farmers rally in front of the regional government house in Sidi Bouzid. A group of Tunisian farmers is waging war against a bank that they say is trying to force them off their land. Having bought land which came at a hefty rate of interest in 2003/2004, the farmers, from Regueb, centre-west of [...]
Je voudrai apporter des précisions sur l’investissement des étrangers en Tunisie. Très souvent, on justifie l’investissement des étrangers en Tunisie par le fait qu’il est nécessaire parce que la Tunisie est entrée dans la mondialisation et que l’investissement étranger en Tunisie créent de l’emploi d’autant plus que le DINAR tunisien n’est pas convertible…L’ensemble de ces [...]
Following the recent massive wave of online censorship carried out by the Tunisian censor, targeting major social websites, such as the popular video-sharing websites, flickr, blogs aggregators, blogs, facebook pages and profiles, the anti-censorship movement adopted very creative, outspoken and brave tactics in protesting the online censorship. A censorship that is not only harming the [...]
Tunisian activists geared up to organize a peaceful demonstration against censorship as part of the May 22 worldwide event announced to be the day against Tunisia’s “Ammar 404”: an imaginary person tunisians have created to symbolize their country’s world class filtering of the internet, and a pun on error 404 users get when they try [...]
Nous venons juste d’apprendre que Slim Amamou et Yassine Ayari, le duo initiateur de la manifestation Nhar 3la 3ammar prévue demain Samedi le 22 Mai devant le ministère de l’information à Tunis, et devant les consulats tunisiens de Paris, Montréal, New York et de Bonn, ont été relâchés des locaux du ministère de l’intérieur, suite [...]
Libéré de sa geôle le 27 avril dernier après six mois d’internement, Taoufik Ben Brik est arrivé récemment en France, il parle de la Tunisie, des droit de la femme, et du pouvoir du président Ben Ali.
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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 region. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Censorship in Tunisia
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