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1 April 2010

Censorship Without Borders: A Moroccan Blogger's Experience

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Advocacy

Naoufel Chaara is a talented Moroccan blogger. His website [Ar] has been recently nominated for the Deutsche Welle's 2010 BOBs international award in the Best Arabic Blog category. Naoufel's usually...

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16 February 2010

YouTube Bans Tunisian Site Nawaat from Uploading Videos

Written by Jillian York · Feature

Yesterday, Advocacy Director Sami Ben Gharbia, who is also co-founder of the Tunisian news site Nawaat, reported that Nawaat was no longer able to upload YouTube videos to their site,...

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4 January 2010

Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages

Written by Jillian York · Feature

First, governments blocked Blogspot. Then they blocked Facebook, and then Twitter. And just when technophiles all over the globe started groaning, a couple of governments got a bit wiser to...

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14 December 2009

Tunisia: Student Mohamed Soudani Jailed for Media Interview

Written by Lina Ben Mhenni · Advocacy, activism

Tunisian student Mohamed Soudani, 24, disappeared on October 22, 2009, in Tunisia after giving interviews to Radio Monte Carlo International and Radio France International. Soudani was missing for 18 days...

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6 November 2009

Tunisia: blogger Fatma Riahi arrested and could face criminal libel charge

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy, Arrest and Harassment

update 1: November 6th, 2009 - Lawyer Ben Debba said fatma has been transferred to Bouchoucha police station and might be summoned to appear before a public prosecutor. update 2:...

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27 October 2009

Tunisia: Prominent Activist Arrested For Environmental Video Report Published Online

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · activism, Arrest and Harassment

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...

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17 September 2009

Tunisia: Journalist and blogger Abdallah Zouari rearrested

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy, Arrest and Harassment

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,...

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