A coalition of international press freedom organisations has asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy not to underestimate human rights violations in […]
Tunisie : Les autorités tunisiennes confirment par les actes les accusations d’Amnesty International
« Il est grand temps que les autorités cessent de rendre un hommage de pure forme aux droits humains et […]
Tunisia: Abuses continue despite official denial
A former prisoner and alleged torture victim whose case was cited in Amnesty International’s recent report on human rights abuses […]
Preparing the Battlefield : The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against […]
Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them
WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued […]
SNJT : bas les masques, arrêtons la comédie !!
Curieux paradoxe, l’adjectif « lâche » a aussi un sens….propre ! Il signifie : méprisable, abject, infâme. Mais il a, […]
Net activism rattles Arabs
Facebook, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a […]
Tunisie : Arrestation de Adnane Hajji, porte parole du mouvement de protestation sociale dans le bassin minier de Gafsa
Le responsable syndical Adnan Hajji, porte parole du mouvement de protestation sociale dans le bassin minier de Gafsa et une […]
Tunisie : torture, détention illégale et procès inéquitables
Des centaines, voire des milliers de jeunes gens, y compris d’enfants, suspectés de crimes de terrorisme, ont été arrêtés en Tunisie ces cinq dernières années. Nombres d’entre eux ont été torturés, ont subi de mauvais traitements, ont été détenus au secret et soumis à des disparitions forcées.
Le rapport WIA 2008 de l’Université de Washington sur le blogging dans le monde musulman
L’Université de Washington vient de publier une étude portant, entre autres, sur la nature du contenu du blogging dans les pays à forte majorité musulmane. Cette étude dresse par ailleurs le tableau peu glorieux des persécutions des blogueurs dans ces différents pays.
Rien de grave, juste la mort d’un “élément perturbateur”
La consigne officielle depuis janvier, était de ne souffler mot des manifestations du bassin minier, jusqu’au débordement de vendredi où […]
Google Earth bombing for a free Tunisia
You’ve heard of Google bombing. Here’s an instant classic piece of Google Earth bombing, courtesy of the Tunisian opposition to a rather nasty dictatorship. The premise: That even despots like Tunisia’s Ben Ali want check out their house in Google Earth:-) His palace is now smothered with YouTube video testimonies by political prisoners (turn on the YouTube layer if it isn’t already).
Dear Mr. Z.A.B.A
I am pleased to inform you that I received your letter, the one you sent to the younger Tunisians around the world through http://www.pactejeunesse.tn, asking me and my fellow Tunisians to work together on coming up with ideas for a brighter future.
Through this letter, I will try to tackle the prime and most lucrative sector for all nations through the history of humanity: Education.
Human rights videos besiege the Tunisian Presidential palace
Tunisia blocked access to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube and Dailymotion, in order to prevent Tunisian netizens from watching video content featuring testimonies from former political prisoners and human rights activists. However, and as shown in this example, Tunisian cyberactivists are successful enough in besieging Carthage presidential palace, on Google Earth, with tens of human rights videos.
Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism
All the currents that claim adherence to political Islam proclaim the “specificity of Islam.” According to them, Islam knows nothing […]
Amman: a long term temporary stage for Iraqis
We’re not staying here” keeps on saying Razaq, a 45 years old Iraqi mechanical engineer. Razaq is as 500 000 Iraqis that left their devastated country to settle in Jordan, according to Jordanian official sources. They moved “temporarily” as they say, at least as they hope. 53 331 of them are registered at the UNHCR in Amman, the Jordanian capital. Razaq came to Amman […]
Tunisians convicted for trying to build hydrogen bomb
TUNIS, Tunisia: A court in Tunisia convicted 14 young Islamic militants Thursday of trying to build a hydrogen bomb and sentenced them to up to 14 years in prison, a lawyer said.
The suspects, who come from the North African country’s southern regions and range in age from 19 to 30, were taken into custody in November 2006 […]
Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle
After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about […]
