The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today protested to the Tunisian government over the action of police who laid siege […]
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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. […]
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 […]
Tunisie : Le gouvernement devrait mettre fin au bannissement de l’activiste Abdallah Zouari
Les autorités tunisiennes devraient mettre fin au bannissement arbitraire de l’activiste politique et journaliste Abdallah Zouari dans un village isolé, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans une lettre envoyée aujourd’hui au ministre de la justice Béchir Tekkari et au ministre de l’intérieur Rafeek Belhaj. D’abord imposé dans le cadre d’une sanction judiciaire, l’exil de Zouari […]
Pilots urge reinstatement of Tunisian pilot
BRUSSELS (AP) — The world’s largest pilots’ group urged Tunisian authorities Monday to reinstate the captain of an airliner that […]
Tunisia: Facebook user jailed for spreading rumors liable to disrupt public order
On Saturday, July 4, 2009, The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Tunis has condemned a Tunisian professor, Dr Khedija Arfaoui, to eight months in prison for spreading rumors, on the social networking website Facebook, liable to disrupt public order.
Saudia Arabia leads Arab regimes in internet censorship
Saudi Arabia leads the field among Arab regimes that practise internet censorship, blocking website content ranging from pornography to politics, […]
Tunisia: Behind Tunisia’s ‘Economic Miracle’: Inequality and criminalization of protest
Tunisia’s ‘economic miracle’ has not benefited all, nor has it been matched by greater enjoyment of human rights. This was […]
Obama : “I got the sucker…” [le buzz de la mouche]
Barack Obama after killing a fly : “That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker,” … It’s right there. Do you want to film that? There it is.”
Herdict: a useful tool to report censorship is now in arabic
The web site from Harvard’s Berkman Center called “Herdict,” which allows worldwide internet users to report about web sites being […]
Wolfram Alpha: Google killer?
No, Wolfram Alpha end result is completely different from Google’s. Wolfram Alpha is as its tagline says: “a computational knowledge […]
Apple “Get a Mac” Web ad: First In Customer Experience (New York Times website)
Encore une pub qui fait davantage de pub au support que l’inverse.
Si toutes les pubs étaient aussi intelligentes, Nawaat devrait à son tour se faire de la pub :)
Apple “Get a Mac” Web ad: First In Customer Experience (New York Times website)
Dictatorship, Tunisia’s undeserved fate
At a press conference on May 4, Naji Bghouri, the head of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), was prevented by pro-government journalists from finishing comments in which he mentioned of declining press freedoms in Tunisia. The episode showed that the regime of President Zine al-Abedine ben Ali had lost patience even with a body that it had helped establish in January 2008 to cut the grass out from under the feet of the country’s most critical journalists.
Torture : Quand ça part en vrille lors du prepcom de Durban II entre la présidente Libyenne de la séance et A. el Hagoug Gomma
Video : Durban Review Conference
Preparatory Committee, Friday, 17th April 2009
Chairperson : Najat Al-Hajjaji, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Speaker : Ashraf el Hagoug Gomma (for UN Watch)
Arab censors swim against the information tides
It was supposed to be a reform of a bad piece of legislation that not only muzzled the press but […]
Tunisia: Blogger’s home raided, laptop and CDs robbed
The house of the Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied el-Heni has been raided last night (April 10, 2009). In a […]
Video documentary – Carthage: The Roman Holocaust
This is an excellent documentary with the purpose of addressing a story which is yet to be fully told, and […]
Historic Growth Trend of Tunisia’s Economy, 1962 – 2007
Since the 60s Tunisia economic performance has been following a relatively growing trend. The strong human capital base, as well […]
