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Hungry for Internet Freedom in Tunisia

Clark Boyd writes for The BBC:

Last week's UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society put the spotlight on the host country Tunisia.

Human rights groups both inside and outside the country intensified their criticism of the Tunisian government's record regarding internet freedom.

Some Tunisian dissidents, including blogger Mokhtar Yahyaoui, even staged a hunger strike in protest.

Last Thursday, Mr Yahyaoui was in a Tunis courtyard, calmly smoking a cigarette and sipping tea.

But the scene around him was anything but calm. A crowd of well-wishers and fellow dissidents had gathered in support of Mr Yahyaoui, who was in the 30th day of a hunger strike to protest the Tunisian political and legal systems.

posted by Fergie @ 11/21/2005 06:30:00 AM