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7 January 2011

Tunisia : Blogger, Global Voices contributor, Slim Amamou arrested today

Written by Guest Contributor · Arrest and Harassment

Activist and blogger Slim Amamou was arrested today, January 6, around 1pm. At this time, his friends and colleagues have no news from him, nor do we know the exact circumstances of his arrest. He had to go to work after completing a technical inspection of his vehicle. The latest news from Slim was a tweet around 1pm.

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7 December 2010

Tunisia: Censorship Continues as Wikileaks Cables Make the Rounds

Written by Lina Ben Mhenni · activism

Tunisian activists pounced on the latest Wikileaks US Embassy Cables, dedicating a new website to republish and discuss the revelations related to their country. Tunileaks, was launched by Nawaat one hour after the whistle-blowing site unleashed the cables on Sunday, November 28th.

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18 August 2010

A First glimpse at the Internet Filtering in Tunisia

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Feature

We learned that the censorship imposed illegally on hundreds of Tunisian blogs and websites, both Tunisians and foreigners, was “shut off” temporarily for few hours on Monday, August 16, 2010....

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5 July 2010

Mass Gmail phishing in Tunisia

Written by Slim Amamou · Feature

Lately, Internet users in Tunisia started complaining about difficulties accessing their Gmail account, and rumors began to circulate about an imminent censorship of Google's email service. Since the new wave...

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27 May 2010

Anti-censorship movement in Tunisia: creativity, courage and hope!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · activism

Following the recent massive wave of online censorship carried out by the Tunisian censor, targeting major social websites, such as the popular video-sharing websites, flickr, blogs aggregators, blogs, facebook pages...

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28 April 2010

Tunisia: flickr, video-sharing websites, blogs aggregators and critial blogs are not welcome

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Feature

Tunisia is carrying out one of the most massive wave of online censorship targeting major social websites, video-sharing websites, blogs aggregators, blogs, facebook pages and profiles. The most recent victim...

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2 April 2010

Tunisia: WAT.TV, the 3rd video-sharing website to be blocked!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Feature

Few days ago, the Tunisian regime has blocked access to WAT.TV, a social networking and media-sharing website, which is believed to be the 3rd video broadcaster on the Internet in...

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