Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:04:46 +0800
From: "Alan G. Alegre" <alalegre@fma.ph>
Subject: [communication 1160] Tunisia: Clampdown on the internet continues (fwd) - from DIGITALDIVIDE Digest
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from DIGITALDIVIDE Digest ...
Taken from Index of Free Expression website

> 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 are
> 'unjustified sentences' handed down to young web users, picked up in a
raid
> on a web cafe 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 calls
> into question the UN's plans to host the World Summit on the Information
> Society (WSIS) in Tunis in late 2005.
>
> http://www.indexonline.org/news/20040707_tunisia.shtml
>