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About Sami Ben Gharbia
My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic). I'm the co-founder of nawaat.org (which means the core in Arabic), a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics. I'm also the Advocacy Director at Global Voices.
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Yemen: Editor of an opposition website kidnapped
On the night of Friday, September 18th, 2009, the Yemeni Editor of the opposition Socialist Party's website, Al Eshteraki, Mohammed al Maqaleh has been kidnapped in the capital Sana'a by security forces.
According to eyewitness reports cited by the International Federation of Journalists :
five gun wielding masked men in ...
Tunisia: Journalist and blogger Abdallah Zouari rearrested
Tunisian blogger and former political prisoner Abdallah Zouari has been arrested yesterday, 15 September 2009 by plainclothes agents in the southern city of Zarzis.
During the 8 hours of arrest, blogger Abdallah Zouari was asked to disclose the passwords of his email accounts and interrogated about his most recent report published ...
Vietnamese Government Cracks Down On Bloggers
In response to the fast growing citizen journalist movement, the Vietnamese government launched a new entity (Administration Agency for Radio, Television and Electronics Information) and decree to restrict Internet freedom, censor private blogs, and compel information technology companies to cooperate with authorities.
Anonymous Blogging guide now available in Arabic
The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in Arabic thanks to this translation by Yazan Badran and Mohammad Al abdallah.
The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked ...
The Cross-posting for Advocacy guide is now available in Arabic
We are pleased to announce that the Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-posting for Advocacy, An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration, is now available in Arabic thanks to this translation by Reine Mattar from Social Media Exchange, Beirut.
Moroccan blogger Hassan Barhon released
Moroccan blogger Hassan Barhon has been released on August 1st, 2009. He got a full royal pardon after spending 5 months in jail. Hassan Barhon was arrested on February 25th for exposing a corruption case involving the prosecutor-general for the king of Morocco at Tetouan’s court of appeals. He was ...
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.
