Instead of showing government figures on crime, he'd display where his former government was behaving criminally, imprisoning political dissidents for daring to speak out (...) When you click on a place-mark on Gharbia's Google Maps mashup, a pop-up reveals details, stories and videos of prisoners and their families. The map is compelling and provocative.… Bloggers Shrink the Planet, Quinn Norton (Wired)

Ben Gharbia hopes that the map's use of new media and existing human rights activism will open up possibilities for more efficient advocacy.
This could be in the works. Neil Durkin, from Amnesty International, says the map is "very impressive" and mentions that the organisation is interested in doing something similar in the next few months.… Putting Tunisian prisons on the map, Preeti Jha. (Guardian News Blog)

The Tunisian government maintains one of the strictest online censorship regimes in the world, so it's hard to know to what extent Gharbia's map is reaching Tunisians inside the country.… Tuesday Map: Injustice in Tunisian prisons, Carolyn O'Hara ( Foreign Policy Passport)

The Tunisian Prison map is a great example of how you can use mashups as a base for journalism or political lobbying.… Mashups as a journalistic - and political - tool: Tunisia example, Lotta Holmström ( Citizen Media Watch)

On the global side, map mashups are quicky proliferating as a tool for awareness, journalism, and political lobbying. The Tunisian Prison Map was somewhat of a landmark in political mashup history (as recent as it has been!).… Is Meatspace Becoming Obsolete?, Julia Kriz (Class Acts)

As the technology becomes more and more accessible, the more of these kinds of sites will inevitably spring up, pulling together maps, case histories, background research documents, advocacy tools, and, yes, videos, and the simpler it becomes to try to shine a light… Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world, Sameer Padania (Global Voices)

An important contribution to contextualizing and situating human rights abuses in Tunisia (...) The mashup map will hopefully inspire human rights activists in other countries to produce similar geographic presentations. Putting Tunisian Prisons on the Map (...Or Does It Explode?)

An incredibly rich and informative Google mash-up of Tunisia's network of secret prisons and sites of human rights abuses (...) Google has given us the power to turn surveillance back on the spymasters of this world. Google Against Guantánamo, Ethan Heitner (TomPaine.com)

An amazing mashup, a spectacular use of internet resources and technology to tell the story of an extraordinary regime in an utterly vivid and compelling way. If you click one link today…, Rachel Rawlins (frizzylogic.org)

This kind of information is rarely available publicly, and banned in Tunisia (...) someone needs to do that for every Arab country. Map of Tunisian political prisons, Issandr El Amrani (The Arabist)