Tunisia : Blogger, Global Voices contributor, Slim Amamou arrested today. This is a guest blog post written by Malek, from the Tunisian collective blog nawaat.org, and translated from French by Jillian C. York. Slim Amamou Activist and bloggerSlim Amamou [and Global Voices Advocacy contributor] was arrested today, January 6, around 1pm. At this time, his friends and colleagues have no news from him, nor do we know the exact circumstances of his arrest.
Tweet: “404L fails the exam because of the light on the license plate. At 6pm, Slim Amamou revealed the position of his phone on the FourSquare social network, which allows its users to report their locations using geolocation. Slim Amamou warned friends that his home was being guarded by police since yesterday and that this morning, a police presence was noticed around the home of one of his friends. Tweet: “There were cops around my house and a friend’s yesterday and this afternoon, they called the office this afternoon.” Again, Slim Amamou is one of the best known Tunisian bloggers. A First glimpse at the Internet Filtering in Tunisia. We learned that the censorship imposed illegally on hundreds of Tunisian blogs and websites, both Tunisians and foreigners, was “shut off” temporarily for few hours on Monday, August 16, 2010. And although the information on this brief lifting of the censorship in the country is still contradictory – as some claimed they had no access to certain websites, while to others the same websites were accessible- it is still early to determine what really happened at the top level of Tunisian censorship, which is, remember, dark, top-secret, centralized at the highest level of the state and is never in the control of the several Tunisian ISPs, though, with an excess of zeal, they have the ability to add an extra layer of censorship to their customers.
Thus, we learned that access to Flickr, the photo sharing site (censored April 22, 2010) and video-sharing sites, blip.tv and wat.tv (respectively censored on the 22nd and 28th of April, 2010), has been restored. Click to enlarge. Slim Amamou. Officiel : @Slim404 libre. Je suis Libre.