WSIS: Cops Crackdown at UN summit
Via The Mail & Guardian Online.
Under the incredulous eyes of the participants at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, journalists and human rights defenders were manhandled, insulted, and then beaten, said a press release from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
APC is an international network of organisations that was founded in 1990 to provide communications infrastructure, including internet-based applications, to groups and individuals who work for peace, human rights, protection of the environment, and substainability.
At 9.30am on Monday, at the Place d’Afrique in Tunis, more than 30 plainclothes policemen were waiting for international and Tunisian delegates and members of civil society.
posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2005 01:21:00 PM
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