Tunisian activists geared up to organize a peaceful demonstration against censorship as part of the May 22 worldwide event announced […]
Tunisia: flickr, video-sharing websites, blogs aggregators and critial blogs are not welcome
Tunisia is carrying out one of the most massive wave of online censorship targeting major social websites, video-sharing websites, blogs […]
Tunisia goes Pinochet on journalist
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) “strongly resented” Tunisia’s use of security in raiding the house of opposition […]
Web Journalism
Peut-on qualifier aujourd’hui la Cyberdissidence et le journalisme indépendant sur internet comme le 5me pouvoir? Face au journalisme à la solde des régimes au pouvoir, nombre de journalistes ont failli à leur mission, et ceux qui y croient toujours sont empêchés par des lois liberticides ou le choix des rédacteurs en chefs. La main-mise du pouvoir et des lobbyistes qui sont à la tête de groupes de presse pose problème.
Why the UK Home Office’s “Pro-Islamic” Blog Study is Wrong
CONTEST is the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism strategy, with a stated aim to “reduce the risk to the UK and its […]
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 […]
Google has disabled the ability for Nawaat to upload new videos
Today we got a message from Youtube informing us that the ability to post new videos on Youtube has been temporarily disabled for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines because of a video deemed “inappropriate.”
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 […]
Will Arabic domain names help censorship, create ‘cyber-ghettos’?
Back in October, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, began processing requests for domain names in […]
Arab Facebook : The Internet’s role in Politics in the Middle East
The virtual world offers new opportunities for political expression and communication. Why political discussion has migrated to the Internet is […]
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 […]
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. […]
Tunisia: Routine muzzling of dissent mars upcoming presidential elections
Next Sunday, 25 October 2009, Tunisia will hold presidential and legislative elections in which it is virtually guaranteed that the incumbent, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who has been in power for the last 22 years and is now opposed by three other candidates, will be re-elected as president. As well, the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party is expected to retain a majority of the seats in the parliament.
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 […]
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, […]
Democracy, Tunisian style
Tunisia is the most peaceful country in Africa, according to the latest Global Peace Index. It is also the top […]
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 […]
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. […]
