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Tunisia invades, censors Facebook, other accounts - Internet - Committee to Protect Journalists
Tunisian authorities have tried to censor photos just like this one, which shows civil unrest in Tunis. (AFP/Fethi Belaid) The Tunisian government has been a notorious censor for many years, for journalists online and off.
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It appears that Anonymous, the vigilante internet freedom-fighting group that rose to fame with their WikiLeaks-defending DDoS attacks , are still busy gathering support for their latest missions despite increasing legal issues involving the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and international law enforcement agencies. For Operation Tunisia, the group gathered over 9,000 people online Sunday to protest government censorship of websites, including WikiLeaks, and the mission, which has resulted in a “near blackout” of the nation’s government sites, appears to be ongoing . “This is a warning to the Tunisian government: attacks at the freedom of speech and information of its citizens will not be tolerated. Any organization involved in censorship will be targeted and will not be released until the Tunisian government hears the claim for freedom to its people,” reads the recruitment message for Operation Tunisia.
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Capturing Tunisia protests on video - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Anti-government protests over soaring unemployment and poor living conditions erupted across Tunisia after Mohammed Bouazizia, young unemployed university graduate, set himself on fire in frustration on December 17. He died while being treated in a hospital near Tunis, the capital, on January 5, according to family members. This act of self-immolation ignited simmering anger at policies that the government's critics say favour an elite minority. Demonstrations across the country have continued unabated since December 17. Most video-sharing sites face blanket censorship in Tunisia, as do news websites like Nawaat , Al Jazeera Arabic , and, most recently, Al Jazeera English . Mokhtar Trifi, president of the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), told Al Jazeera that lawyers across Tunisia have been "savagely beaten".
Tunisia 'to respond' to protests - Africa - Al Jazeera English
The Tunisian government has said it will listen to protesters, after weeks of unrest over high unemployment and the cost of living left dozens of people dead and raised the tensions. Government officials reported that 14 people were killed since Saturday in clashes between the security forces and protesters in the towns of Thala, Kasserine and Regueb. However, Tunisian union sources said that the number was at least 20. In a statement, several political parties and movements, including the Progressive Democratic Party and the Renewal Movement, called on the government to stop the violence. They called for "a ceasefire and the return of all military and security forces to their compounds", as well as the "release of all detainees including political ones".
Tunisian government harvesting usernames and passwords - Security
ATI is run by the Tunisian Ministry of Communications. They supply all of the privately held Tunisian ISPs, making them the main source of Internet access in the country. They’ve been under scrutiny for years, due to the fact that they make use of their authority to regulate the entire national network. Last April , ATI earned international attention by blocking access to sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo. According to Reporters Without Borders , authorities claim to target only pornographic or terrorist websites.Reporters Without Borders condemns the reinforcement of online censorship amid a wave of protests and rioting in Tunisia that began two weeks when a young man set himself on fire outside a police station in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid. “Online social networks have played a key role in transmitting news and information about the situation in Sidi Bouzid and other regions while the government-controlled traditional media have mostly ignored the story,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The international media took some time to get interested in the subject but then found themselves barred from the sensitive areas. “Sensitive social and political topics were already heavily censored on the Internet but the authorities, who are clearly disturbed by this wave of unrest, have responded by trying to impose even tighter and faster controls over the online flow of information about it.
Reporters Sans Frontières - Internet censors move into top gear in response to widespread unrest
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While Europe celebrated Christmas and the New Year, an uprising began in Tunisia after a young man set himself on fire. The young generation who has lived under repression all their lifetime now calls for more freedoms and more jobs. Thousands of youngsters are estimated to have participated in the protests during the last weeks. In the following fights with riot police at least two demonstrators were killed.
Reporters Sans Frontières - Wave of arrests of bloggers and activists
Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrests and disappearances yesterday of bloggers and online activists across a number of Tunisian cities. The worldwide press freedom organization has monitored at least five such cases but the list could well be longer. Police arrested the bloggers to question them about hacking into government websites by the militant group Anonymous, several sources told the organisation. Reporters Without Borders urged the authorities to release them as soon as possible. “These arrests, intended to intimidate Tunisian Internet-users and their international backers, are likely to prove counter-productive, by stoking up tension. Arresting several bloggers is not the way to get images of demonstrations deleted from the web or for cyber-attacks to be halted”, Reporters Without Borders said.
Tunisian protests turn into cyberwar between government and hacker group - ComputerworldUK.com
Violent protests in Tunisia have turned into a cyberwar between government forces and the Anonymous hacker group, after Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts of perceived dissidents were censored. On Dec. 18, a group of youths gathered in Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, protesting against unemployment and poor living conditions. The government cracked down, forcing discussion to move online through social networking forums. "The authorities appear to have turned to even more repressive tactics to silence reporting.How Anonymous defaced a Tunisian government Web site It used to be that if you had a gripe with politicians, you’d scrawl something clever on a placard and wave it around in front of a government building with some likeminded friends. Today you don’t even need to leave your front door. The people behind Anonymous have been taking aim at government Web sites to protest crackdowns on freedom of speech or information, following the Operation: Payback attacks on MasterCard, Visa and PayPal in support of WikiLeaks. In the last few days Anonymous has set its sights on Tunisia for censoring the web sites of dissident bloggers and new sources, following widespread domestic protests in December. A representative of AnonOps (the elite arm of Anonmyous that spearheaded recent attacks) who calls himself Topiary, says the Tunisian government has been using a JavaScript embed to phish Tunisian citizens’ usernames and passwords to spy on them.
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AFP: EU leads international condemnation of Tunisia
BRUSSELS — The European Union led international condemnation on Monday of Tunisia's weekend crackdown on a wave of food protests which killed 14 people, and urged Tunis to restrain its security forces. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was "concerned about events that have been taking place in Tunisia in the past days" and called for the release of detained protesters. "We call for the immediate release from detention of bloggers, journalists, lawyers and other people who were detained, who were peacefully demonstrating in Tunisia." France, the former colonial power, appealed for calm after weeks of protests against high prices and unemployment in the North African country turned deadly at the weekend. "We deplore the violence, which caused casualties, and call for calm," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said, adding that only dialogue would allow Tunisians to overcome the economic and social problems confronting them.On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become a seller of fruits and vegetables in the southern Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. When authorities confiscated his wares to punish him for selling without a license, Bouazizi set himself on fire. He died in hospital on January 4, 2011. Video of protests in Sidi Bouzid on YouTube Bouazizi’s suicide struck a chord with other frustrated Tunisians.
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zunguzungu Weasel Words from Secretary Clinton on Tunisia
On Tunisia: SECRETARY CLINTON : Well, we are worried, in general, about the unrest and the instability, and what seems to be the underlying concerns of the people who are protesting — it seems to be a combination of economic and political demonstrations — and the government’s reaction, which has been, unfortunately, leading to the deaths of some of the protestors . So we are not taking sides in it, we just hope there can be a peaceful resolution of it…we have got a lot of very positive aspects of our relationship with Tunisia. And what the Ambassador and what the State Department back in Washington did was just express concern that this is a protest that has, unfortunately, provoked such a reaction from the government, leading to the deaths of mostly young people who were protesting.tunileaks
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