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Tunisian Blogger Sentenced to Year in Prison »

By Curt on Dec 5, 2007 in Slim Boukhdhir, Tunisia, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments

Update: CPJ reports that Boukhdhir’s sentence was upheld by the court of appeals in Sfax.
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According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (no relation), blogger and journalist Slim Boukhdhir, who was arrested on November 27, has been sentenced by the Tunisian authorities to one year in prison.
A court in Sakiet Ezziet, in the suburbs […]

Tunisian Blogger Arrested »

By Curt on Dec 3, 2007 in Slim Boukhdhir, Tunisia | 0 Comments

According to IFEX (via CPJ), Tunisian blogger and journalist Slim Boukhdhir has been arrested. (His name is written “salim” on his blog.) Boukhdhir has criticized Tunisia’s president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali publicly in the past.
On Monday, police in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, detained Slim Boukhdhir, a well-known blogger and contributor to the […]