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Tunisia: Jailed Netizen Denied Eid Pardon
Tunisian Twitter users expressed their disappointment when they learned that jailed netizen Jabeur Mejri, was not going to benefit from a recent presidential pardon issued on the occasion of Eid. Last...
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Tunisian Police Blamed for Torturing Young Man to Death
Walid DenguirOn 1 November, 34-year-old Walid Denguir was chased and arrested by police before he was driven a police station in the capital Tunis. About one hour later, his mother Faouzia received a...
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Tunisian Rap Song Turns into an Anthem for Youth
On 14 September, Tunisian artists Hamzaoui Med Amine and Kafon released their newest song ‘Houmani'. With more than 3.4 million views on YouTube so far, the song has become an anthem for Tunisian...
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PHOTOS: Tunisia in 2013: A Rough Year
The year 2013 was a rough year for Tunisia: two political assassinations, protests, military and security forces targeted by armed groups and a never ending political crisis. On February 6, Chokri...
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Tunisia's Constituent Assembly Adopts New Constitution
Tunisia finally has a new constitution. The National Constituent Assembly (NCA) overwhelmingly approved the charter three years after the ousting of the 23-year-rule of Zeine el Abidin Ben Ali. A total...
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Tunisia: Jailed Facebook User Pardoned, Release Unconfirmed
After spending nearly two years in prison, Jabeur Mejri jailed for posting content deemed offensive to Islam, obtained presidential pardon, local media reported on Wednesday. In March 2012, Mejri was...
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Tunisia: Pardoned Facebook User Released From Jail
Jabeur Mejri, jailed for posting Prophet Muhammad cartoons on Facebook, was freed yesterday [March, 4]. In a statement, Mejri's support committee announced [fr] his release last night: Détenu depuis...
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Tunisian Blog Launches Whistleblowing Platform
Tunisian award-winning collective blog Nawaat has launched its own whistle-blowing platform: Nawaat Leaks. The secure platform was launched in collaboration with GlobaLeaks, an open source and...
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Tunisia: ‘I Too Set a Police Station on Fire’
Tunisian netizens launched the social media campaign “I too set a police station on fire”, in solidarity with a number of protesters prosecuted for “burning police stations” and other “acts of...
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‘There Was No Palestine'?
A number of Twitter users from Palestine and the Arab region are taking to the microblogging site to refute a common Israeli discourse that Palestine never existed. “There is no such thing as a...
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Saudi Blogger Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison, 1000 Lashes
On 7 May, a criminal court in Jeddah sentenced blogger Raif Badawi to ten years in prison and a thousand lashes for “insulting Islam”. Badawi was prosecuted for developing “Saudi Arabian Liberals”, an...
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Tunisian Activists Call for Revision of Harsh Anti-Marijuana Penalties
Tunisia has very strict anti-marijuana laws. Following the arrest of activist and blogger Azyz Amami, who has been campaigning for abolishing such laws, calls to amend the country's legislation on...
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‘Trash Selfies’ for a Clean Tunisia
A number of Tunisians have recently been taking selfies while posing near trash before publishing them on social-networking sites via the hash tag #SelfiePoubella (‘trash selfie') to denounce the piles...
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In Tunisia, the Question is To Vote or Not to Vote
2014 elections logo, via the Facebook page of the independent election commission As elections near in Tunisia, netizens are debating whether it is worth casting their votes in the upcoming legislative...
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Leaked Cybercrime Law Could Undo Tunisia's Pioneer Status on Internet Rights
A leaked copy of Tunisia's new cybercrime draft law shows signs that the country's major achievements in the field of Internet freedom may soon come undone. It is unclear whether the text, leaked on...
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