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Category: TunisiaBy 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 […]
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 […]
By Curt on Sep 3, 2007 in Secure Computing, SmartFilter, Tunisia, Dailymotion, Blocked | 0 Comments
France-based video sharing site, which was blocked in Tunisia in April, then was available, is apparently blocked again, according to GVA. It is possible that this block is not directed specifically against the company by the Tunisian authorities, but is a result of the imprecision of SmartFilter, the filtering software produced by the U.S. company […]
