Rights Groups Angry over WSIS Meeting Location
An AP newswire by Nick Wadhams, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
As the Internet's influence grows, so too does resistance from nations wary of giving their citizens the tools to voice their opinions and mine the online mother lode of knowledge.
That issue will be on center stage during a U.N. technology summit this week, the urgency brought home by the fact that the event is taking place in Tunisia, which activists call one of the world's worst Internet censors.
Already, rights watchdogs say, both Tunisian and foreign reporters planning to cover the summit have been harassed and beaten. Reporters Without Borders says its secretary-general, Robert Menard, has been banned from attending.
These groups — including a coalition of 14 freedom of expression organizations — argue that such practices makes Tunisia unfit to host an event whose goals include promoting free expression and bringing Internet access to as much of the world as possible.
posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2005 11:34:00 AM
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