الوسط التونسية : خطوات مروعة في الاتجاه الخاطئ 1
Tunisian journalist sues government agency for blocking Facebook
Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied El-Hen filed a suit this week in a Tunisian court against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking Web site Facebook, according to a report by Reuters (Arabic). The journalist demands about $5,000 as a compensation for the damages which the blocking caused to him.
Tunisie : Retour sur les échanges Zied El Heni / Aymen Rezgui sur Canal du Dialogue Tunisien
C’est la première émission de Canal du Dialogue consacrée intégralement à la préoccupation qui me touche le plus en tant que citoyen tunisien. J’ai un entendu un langage qui m’est familier et me suis retrouvé dans un vocabulaire que je croise tous les jours. L’émission a même commencé par l’excellente satire de la […]
Torture en Tunisie : Un ancien ministre s’exprime sur El Hiwar Ettounsi
Pour résumer, en utilisant la formule consacrée, cet ancien ministre était «responsable mais pas coupable» quant à la pratique de la torture sur les citoyens tunisiens dans les locaux de l’administration tunisienne. L’entretien est une reprise diffusée le 17 février 2008, où l’on retrouve un TBH assez offensif avec sa manière si particulière dans le paysage médiatique tunisien d’être «cordialement direct».
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
“Islam Is a Religion, Not a Political Agenda”
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is one of the world’s most important contemporary Shia clerics. In this lengthy interview with Fatma Sagir, […]
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 […]
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 […]