[IRP] [Expression] Slim Amamou (and other bloggers) arrested in Tunisia

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

FYI, Global Voices has a special coverage page of the unrest in Tunisia
http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/tunisia-uprising-201011/

Also note that Sami Ben Gharbia, director of Global Voices Advocacy who also happens to be a Tunisian exile, has along with several colleagues been documenting the Tunisian government's aggressive efforts at Internet censorship and surveillance - and the growing anti-censorship movement - for the past several years. See: 
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/categories/countries/tunisia/

Amongst authoritarian countries Tunisia has one of the highest levels of both aggressiveness and sophistication when it comes to Internet censorship and surveillance.

I recommend that people wanting guidance on how to approach the Tunisia situation and how to help Tunisian victims of the crackdown should connect with Sami.

Best,
Rebecca


Rebecca MacKinnon
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On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:24 PM, andrew at torproject.org wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:27:40PM +0100, meryem at marzouki.info wrote 2.2K bytes in 54 lines about:
> : The Tunisian authorities exercizes severe repression against
> : protesters, and has intensified the censorship of the press and any
> : independent reporting and the targetting of any dissenting voice. In
> : particular, Slim Amamou - who recently participated to our
> : discussions on the IRP list, that's why I'm especially mentioning
> : him  - and other bloggers have been arrested, and there are no news
> : about their situation, except that Slim was detained at the ministry
> : of Interior headquarters.
> 
> I've blogged about what I've seen from Tunisia over the past few days,
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/measuring-tunisian-tor-usage
> 
> I knew something was up this week when one of my private tor bridges I
> run-in this case for activists in Tunisia that I met in 2008-suddenly
> stopped getting any traffic at all this week.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew
> pgp key: 0x74ED336B
> 
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