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

Tue Jan 11 20:56:28 EET 2011

There is very little coverage in Canada that I can see or in the US media
which also have access to via cable... In the US its wall to wall Giffords.

M

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

Dear All,

Thanks Meryem, Walid, and Hatem for this additional info.

FYI, the events are being covered by the BBC (general news) and Dutch 
national TV and online/print newspapers(steady and regular). I also saw a 
French (TV5) roundtable on their regular media/journo. show (the 'Kiosk') ; 
mainstream news media taking an interest here.

Is this the case elsewhere?

best
MF

--On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 17:40 +0100 Meryem Marzouki 
<meryem at marzouki.info> wrote:

> Thanks Walid and Hatem for these updates. This, in itself, shows the 
> level of disinformation due to the censorship and now to the bloody 
> repression. It seemed from an interview of a member of the Tunisian 
> pirate party published yesterday by Le Monde that only Azyz Amami was 
> still retained (in French: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/
> 2011/01/10/les-tunisiens-osent-enfin-parler-entre-eux-et-cela-aucune-
> censure-ne-l-arretera_1463210_651865.html#ens_id=1289018).
>
> It's good to know that Slim and others seem physically safe, but one 
> obviously fears that the charges will be very serious: it's likely  
> that the governement will accuse them for the cyber-attacks against  
> official website, which would probably be qualified as "terrorist 
> acts".
>
> In the mean time, the number of deaths is dramatically increasing.
>
> Meryem
>
> Le 11 janv. 11 ? 16:54, hatem zidi a ?crit :
>
>> dear all
>>
>> i have the information that slim's family just visited him and his in 
>> good shape and they confirm that he wasn't tortured or mistreated.
>>
>> we are still waiting for the official confirmation about the charges 
>> against him
>>
>> have a nice day
>> --
>> hatem zidi
>> open source expert & integrator
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:01, Walid Al-Saqaf <admin at alkasir.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Dear Meryem & friends,
>>>
>>> It appears that Slim and the others are still in detention. A friend 
>>> from Tunisia here in the Cairo event just told me that this 
>>> information is just
>>> to introduce the news about their trial. Just thought you should
>>> know.,.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Walid
>>>
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> Walid Al-Saqaf
>>> Founder & Administrator
>>> alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship 
>>> https://alkasir.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Meryem Marzouki 
>>> <meryem at marzouki.info>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Update: It seems, but this still needs firm confirmation, that Slim 
>>>> and some other bloggers (and a rapper) are now free. The bad news 
>>>> is that the
>>>> police and/or the army have been shooting people in some Tunisian
>>>> cities.
>>>> There are deaths.
>>>> Meryem
>>>>
>>>> Le 7 janv. 11 ? 16:27, Meryem Marzouki a ?crit :
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> You've probably heard about the situation in Tunisia, with street 
>>>>> demonstrations, strikes and other actions following events in the 
>>>>> city of Sidi Bouzid since mid-December, when a young unemployed 
>>>>> men selling goods in
>>>>> the streets immolate himself after the police seized his goods.
>>>>> He recently
>>>>> died. These protests and of course this desperate act, are a
>>>>> consequence of
>>>>> corruption and very high level of unemployment, especially for
>>>>> young people
>>>>> including highly educated people, in the country.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Information in English may be found at: 
>>>>> http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/middle-east-north-africa/
>>>>> tunisia/ and
>>>>> at:
>>>>> http://fr.readwriteweb.com/2011/01/07/divers/blogueur-slim-
>>>>> amamou-auteur-sur-readwriteweb-arrt-en-tunisie-sidibouzid/?
>>>>> utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A
>>>>> +readwriteweb-france+%28ReadWriteWeb+France%29
>>>>> (the latter article is in French, but there are some comments in 
>>>>> English at the bottom of the page).
>>>>>
>>>>> There is also an audio interview in English, including an 
>>>>> interview of Slim - of course before his arrest - at:
>>>>> http://media.theworld.org/audio/010620118.mp3 (interview by
>>>>> Clark Boyd,BBC
>>>>> correspondent in Brussels,published on 6 January).
>>>>>
>>>>> Wanted to let you know...
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Meryem
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