24sur24.posterous. Tunisia Travel Warning, Updated. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - On September 14, 2012 the Department of State ordered the departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Tunisia, following the attack on the U.S. Embassy and the American Cooperative School in Tunis. While the Consular Section is open for public services, the Embassy’s ability to respond to emergencies involving U.S. citizens throughout Tunisia is limited. The security situation in Tunisia remains unpredictable. Sporadic episodes of civil unrest have occurred throughout the country. U.S. citizens should avoid large crowds and demonstrations as even demonstrations that are intended to be peaceful can become violent and unpredictable. The Embassy is located in the Les Berges du Lac suburb of Tunis. ConsularTunis at state.gov For information on “What the Department of State Can and Can’t Do in a Crisis” please visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs' Emergencies and Crisis link.
Broadcast Yourself. Un militant écologiste révèle les pratiques des braconniers étrangers en Tunisie. Camp des braconniers qataris avec la présence de l'armée Tunisienne à la région de Makhrouga, 172 km sous la ville de Tatouine. Tunisie Crédit Photo Abdel Majid Dabbar 14 décembre 2011 Le militant écologiste Abdel Majid Dabbar est très actif dans les ONGs de protection de la Nature et de l’Environnement. Suite à son appel sur facebook où il parle des outardes (houbara en arabe) et des dernières gazelles dorcas et rim gravement menacées par la chasse illégale, nous avons organisé avec lui une interview au mois d’avril 2012 pour avoir plus de détails. Nous n’avons pas publié l’entretien estimant qu’il fallait faire une investigation complète à ce sujet. Cependant, suite à la diffusion d’un enregistrement audio d’une réunion en huis clos entre l’ex Premier ministre Béji Caid Essebsi et son succésseur, Hamadi Jebali, chef du gouvernement actuel, les propos de M.Dabbar ont été confirmés.
Pendant trois ans, M. Selon M. M. Pour voir le témoignage de M. In Post-Revolution Tunisia, Judges Fights and Journalists Strike to Stem Corruption | The 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brazil, 7-10 November 2012. In Post-Revolution Tunisia, Judges Fights and Journalists Strike to Stem Corruption By hafawarebhi. Published 18 October 2012 Photo: Hajer Mtiri. The judiciary has been known as one of the most corrupting careers in Tunisia. For years, the dictatorial regime manipulated judges and used them to oppress the citizens. Nineteen months after 14 January, their hope seems to be lost, as the post-revolutionary government is still dominating the judiciary. Since 4 October 2012, the members of the Association of Tunisian Magistrates (AMT) have been striking. The popular disenchantment is aggravated by the governmental appointments to top state media posts. At the end of the day, the SNJT affirmed the strike was successful. While judges are striking and some journalists are starving, politicians are endlessly quarreling and the economic and social scene is getting gloomier.
Joseph Braude: Tunisia Eyes Its Cops and Spies. Twenty months after the overthrow of Tunisian strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the waiting room office of the "Union of Security Workers" in central Tunis, roughly akin to America's "Fraternal Order of Police," betrays a culture of policing that hasn't quite broken with the past. Several posters on the wall commemorate "martyrs" of the Tunisian revolution -- that is, officers of the security apparatus who died in the attempt to quash it.
One banner quotes the classical Arab poet al-Mutanabbi: "If you see the fangs of the leopard protruding, do not assume that the leopard is smiling. " Another, also in Arabic, reads, "We do not surrender. Either we triumph or we die. " During last year's revolution, demonstrators torched more than 150 state security installations, mainly police precincts, which had long been viewed as tools of repression. "The elected government has not applied our recommendations," Akrami told me. La Radio Nationale à la dérive ? Depuis le mois d’avril la Radio Nationale va mal. Les petits conflits s’accumulent : des noms d’émissions qu’il faut changer parce qu’il semble impossible de prononcer « Chocolat chaud » ou « Café noir » en plein mois de Ramadan, un concours relancé avec les mêmes critères de candidature, des nominations de directeurs de chaînes de radio par note interne… Pour les employés et journalistes de la radio cette situation est la conséquence directe de la mise en place, à la tête de la Radio Nationale, de Mohamed Meddeb, un ancien employé du service technique, parachuté à la place de Président Directeur Général (PDG).
Et ce conflit qui dure depuis des mois semble mettre à mal le travail de reconversion de la radio qui veut passer du statut de média gouvernemental à celui de média de service public. En avril dernier Habib Belaid, alors PDG de la Radio Nationale, était débarqué pour être remplacé par un ingénieur technique de la radio : Mohamed Meddeb. Habib Belaïd débarqué sans ménagement. Post-Revolution Tunisia: Still Fighting for Rights. Many Tunisians feel their revolution was hijacked and the current ruling party has not improved their lifestyles. There are many who will not rest until their demands are finally met.
From the tenth floor restaurant of the El Hana Hotel overlooking Bourguiba Street, the stage of the Tunisian revolution, some of its intellectuals peer down. “Don’t be too impressed by the city’s lights,” advises one. “They’re deceptive. All agree that the overthrow of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was a good thing. He is not alone in feeling that way. These revolutionary intellectuals are immeasurably better off than the real revolutionaries who, all over the country, have not yet surrendered to al-Nahda or anyone else. They are dispersed: a political party here; an association there; another party; a musical group; bloggers; a third party; another association. Parties disintegrate and coalitions form. Revolutionary Achievement The farmers are welcoming and friendly to passing visitors.
Are Egypt and Tunisia Headed for Counter-Islamist Revolutions? Islamists climbed to power in Egypt and Tunisia on the backs of economic protests which were hijacked by liberal activists which were then hijacked by Islamists. The Islamists won elections, but the liberals are still trying to pull them down and there’s plenty of economic discontent for them to work with. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has resorted to Mubarak’s old tactics of using violent attacks against protesters, particularly female protesters. Unlike Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t care what anyone thinks of it, but the escalation of that violence may lead somewhere they don’t expect. Tahrir Square is once again turning into a protest ground, this time for Anti-Brotherhood activists who were the players in the original revolution.
The confrontations between liberal protesters and government thugs is playing out a lot like the way the old revolution did. The key ingredient is public anger. The key, on our end, to bringing down the Brotherhood is denying them money. Tunisia clash leaves opposition official dead - Africa. An opposition party co-ordinator in the southern town of Tataouine has died after his supporters clashed with those of the Islamist-led government, according to his Call of Tunisia party and the interior ministry. A party official told the AFP news agency that Lotfi Naguedh died on Thursday afternoon after being beaten by pro-government demonstrators who attacked his office. Khaled Tarrouche, an interior ministry spokesperson, confirmed the violence but said Naguedh had died of a heart attack. A Call of Tunisia (Nida Touns in Arabic) spokesperson replied: "Even if it was a heart attack, it was directly linked to the attack. " Amateur video and witness accounts suggested violence on both sides, with supporters of Call of Tunisia throwing Molotov cocktails at supporters of the Ennahdha party. 'Old regime' The ruling coalition accuses him of regrouping former regime officials and seeking to undermine the government.
Post-revolution constitution They did so even though both leaders attended. Former U.S. Ambassador shares experience of Tunisian revolution. Tuesday night, the Penn Middle East Center, in conjunction with the American Tunisian Association, hosted former United States Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray. Gray was ambassador during the Tunisian Revolution, the powder keg for the Arab Spring, and came to speak about his experiences as a diplomat and Tunisia’s movement towards democracy. “I was surprised by the degree to which Tunisia really has a Mediterranean orientation,” Gray said, opening the lecture for the roughly 15-person audience.
He presented a number of theories on four different factors of the Tunisian Revolution: its speed, its nature, its current situation and its future. He first gave a timeline of the revolution’s main events, from Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation to dictator Ben Ali’s flight, all the while detailing the various demonstrations that drove the revolution. “So in a short four weeks — from Friday, Dec. 17 to Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 — 23 years of authoritarian rule were ended like that,” Gray said. Necsus | Twitter as a multilingual space: The articulation of the Tunisian revolution through #sidibouzid. By Thomas Poell and Kaouthar Darmoni Introduction Some journalists in the popular press have labelled the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt as Twitter or Facebook revolutions. Similar claims were made concerning the 2009 election protests in Moldova and Iran.[1] The millions of tweets with the hashtag #iranelection, #sidibouzid, or #egypt, as well as a number of extremely popular Facebook groups such as the Egyptian group ‘We are all Khalid Said’, led the press to believe that popular social media platforms played a decisive role in the protests and revolutions.[2] However, critics were quick to dismiss such claims.
They pointed out that a wide variety of factors besides social media played a part in bringing people to the streets including high population growth, the illegitimacy and ineffectiveness of the state, corruption, and torture.[3] When examining the #sidibouzid tweets it is particularly striking to see how many different languages were used. From tools to assemblage Table 1. Tunisia: Attackers Set Fire to Muslim Saint Shrine. Médias : Application du décret-loi 116. Enfin! Le gouvernement a fini de tourner en rond en ce qui concerne les médias ou en tout cas semble enfin faire un pas en avant.
Après avoir baladé les décrets-lois 115 et 116 de consultations nationales en commission parlementaire il a enfin décidé d’activer le décret-loi 116. Il était temps. La semaine dernière, lors d’une réunion entre les membres de la Troïka, plusieurs décisions ont été prises, dont celle de l’application du décret-loi 116. Voilà presque un an que ce décret-loi relatif à la liberté de la communication audiovisuelle et portant création d’une Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA), a été promulgué. Un an presque qu’il devrait être en fonction, que la HAICA aurait dû voir le jour, permettant ainsi de réguler le secteur de l’audiovisuel, de voir naître de nouvelles radios et chaînes de télévision et également de nommer de manière légale et juste des directeurs à la tête des médias publics.
Lire aussi : Politique et religion : Quatorze siècles que l’on parle ! Le problème de la relation entre les sociétés musulmanes et la culture de la démocratie et du pluralisme n’est pas nouvelle malgré qu’elle commence à s’imposée avec beaucoup d’acquitté sur le champ publique depuis « le printemps arabe ». En effet, c’est à partir de 1925 que la question était posée réellement par l’égyptien Ali Abderaziq dont l’ouvrage « L’Islam et les fondations de pouvoir » a constitué un tournant décisif dans l’histoire contemporaine du monde arabo-musulman. L’ouvrage a donné naissance à une grande controverse dans un contexte marqué par la montée des interrogations sur les particularités des systèmes politique occidental. L’auteur a pu dépasser les paradigmes classiques pour construire une rupture épistémologique dans sa méthode d’aborder la question du rapport entre le religieux et le champ politique.
Dès l’origine, les questions se sont posées sur un mode intensément passionnel, chargé de perceptions et de représentations liées au problème de la modernité. Notes: Tunisian Tipping Point? Are Tunisia’s governing majority wolves in sheep’s clothing? Mr. Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda which triumphed in recent elections, had several taped conversations leaked where he appears to discuss alcohol bans and the imposition of religious law as a means to gradually Islamizing Tunisian society. Ennahda spokesmen have claimed the quotes were deliberately taken out of context: He said the video was an effort by Ghannouchi at the time to encourage the Salafis – ultraconservative Muslims who insist on the immediate imposition of Islamic law – to take a gradual approach and work within the system to advance their beliefs rather than through violence. “We have to make sure that the whole Salafi trend isn’t pushed into the lap of al-Qaida.
We have to isolate the violent elements,” he added. “He is trying to convince them that the soft approach, the moderate approach, is the best one.” It’s not clear who leaked the tapes. Thoughts on Tunisia's Transition. I was in Tunisia last week and met with a wide range of people, including business, government, and civil society leaders; educators, journalists, bloggers, university students, and Salafist youth; young people unemployed and looking for jobs, and graduates who have newly entered the workforce. Below are some reflections on what I heard: • Numerous Tunisians I spoke with sadly noted that they don’t recognize their country today. From the Salafist demonstrations that shut down Manouba University; to the attacks on artists and journalists for “harming public morals”; to the sacking of the U.S.
Embassy and nearby American Cooperative School of Tunis a few weeks ago; to the recent case of the woman who after being raped by the police was accused of “indecency”–all of these and other incidents indicate a worrying rise of conservatism and rejection of modernity in what has always been thought of as the most progressive country in the region.
Isobel Coleman. Independent apologises to Ghannouchi. The Independent was forced to retract allegations made to Mr Ghannouchi. On August 28, an article published in the Independent alleged that Tunisia's leading party headed by Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, the Ennahda Party, had been offered significant sums of money prior to the Tunisian elections. The article, written by veteran journalist Robert Fisk on the conflict in Syria, quoted an interview with the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Muallem, during which he alleged that the Emir of Qatar had generously funded the party. Yesterday, 10 October, the paper was forced to retract the allegations made in its pages and issued an unqualified apology stating, "We wish to make it clear that Mr Ghannouchi and his party have not accepted any donation from a foreign state in breach of Tunisian party funding laws.
We apologise to Mr Ghannouchi. " Ennahda came to power in the wake of last year's Tunisian Revolution which saw the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. 24sur24.posterous. Tunisians Worry About Loss Of Freedoms Gained Under The Arab Spring. Tunisia’s unemployed revolutionaries head to Europe. Flirting With Extremism in Tunisia. Tunisia: General Strike in Thala. Opinion: Tunisia's response to police rape puts human rights to shame. Quand les femmes se retrouvent à la rue. Pour quand une Assemblée constituante Transparente ? Walid Zarrouk : “J’ai été témoin de meurtres de citoyens tunisiens”
كلام شارع : التونسي و رجل الامن. A rape case in Tunisia puts the legal system on trial. UPS suspended its services in #Tunisia due to political and s. Facebook. Ifikra : #dereamcity #tunis... Blogger Lina Ben Mhenni on the police rape case in Tunisia. Tunisians Battle Over The Meaning Of Free Expression. Tunisia: 'dictatorship is a disease' After Protests, Tunisia’s Salafists Plot a More Radical Revolution. الحوار الكامل مع سيف الله بن حسين -أبو عياض. حوار مع سيف الله بن حسين -أبو عياض Les « salafistes » sont-ils « sains » ? The Revolution in Tunisia Stalls - By Fadil Aliriza. Noureddine Bhiri succeeds Ben Ali at the head of the Supreme Council of Magistrates. كلام شارع : التونسي و احداث السفارة الامريكية. Vidéo : Des manifestants brûlent l’ambassade US à Tunis. Deux morts et des dizaines de blessés.
حصرياً:من داخل وخارج السفارة الأمريكية أثناء اقتحامها. Share Revolution. The murder of Abdulraouf Khamasi and the attempted cover-up by the security and justice sectors. The Tunisian Rationale - By David Nassar. Tunisia’s Graphic Revolution. Tunisian Police Detained on Torture Suspicions. Tunisian man dies after being tortured -lawyer.
Tunisia: Artists on the offensive with photo campaign. Moez Chakchouk Statement at Panel I of 2nd Freedom Online Conferenc... Tunisia deletes Internet censorship policies. Losing ground to Islamists, Tunisia's liberal parties get in the charity game. Tunisia: Information and Communication Minister - 'Internet Censorship No Longer Implemented in Tunisia' Biking from Tunisia to China for Wetland Conservation. #Tunisia: Illegal. Creating an Open Tunisia | Ashoka Knowledge. La Polit-Revue : Une semaine « dirty politics » Tunisia : The case of Amin Alkarami reveals the identity of an army sniper. Tunisia: Ennahda fails to deliver promises of work and freedom.
Books and art pit freedom of religion against free speech in Tunisia. Untitled. Des associations et citoyens tunisiens poursuivent la Constituante en justice. Tunisia's totalitarianism. Tunisian Political Cartoonist _Z_: ‘Nothing Has Really Changed’ Newspaper editor detained, Muslim Brotherhood take control of state media. Bahrain Govt Hires 18 Western Companies to Improve Image After Unrest. French councillor beaten by Tunisian extremists over family's dress. Tourists should beware of Islamist mobs in Tunisia, warns French politician.
Coup d’état à la tête de Dar Assabah.