Tunisia: Clampdown on the internet continues (fwd)

[Andy Carvin <ACarvin@EDC.ORG>]

Tunisia: Clampdown on the internet continues

Brings new meaning to the phrase ?web search'

An appeal court has upheld what local and international observers say a=
re
?unjustified sentences' handed down to young web users, picked up in a =
raid
on a web caf=E9 in the Tunisian city of Zarzis as they browsed Islamist=

websites . For them the case is just more evidence of the country's
intransigence on the issue of free expression and the internet ? and ca=
lls
into question the UN's plans to host the World Summit on the Informatio=
n
Society (WSIS) in Tunis in late 2005.

http://www.indexonline.org/news/20040707_tunisia.shtml

ac

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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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