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Sami Ben Gharbia

Advocacy Director

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About Sami Ben Gharbia

131 posts · joined 2006-10-1

My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic). I'm also the co-founder of nawaat, a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics, Cybversion a collective blog of documenting censorship in Tunisia.

I'm currently Global Voices Advocacy Director.

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September 18th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

Moroccan Blogger Mohammed Erraji has been acquitted by appeals court and is now free.

September 4th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

The ban on the popular social networking website Facebook has been lifted in Tunisia since yesterday 3 September 2008 after a massive protest by Tunisian Netizens. Tens of Facebook groups protesting the ban have popped up in recent weeks surrounding this issue. But, according to Al Chourouk newspaper, the President Ben Ali intervened personally ordering the lifting of the ban and restoring access to the website.

August 20th, 2008

Silencing online speech in Tunisia

A small portrait of the translator Sami Ben Gharbia · 02:19, August 20th, 2008 · Middle East & North Africa
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Blocking web 2.0 websites (Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook) and barring access to local outspoken websites and blogs is the most obvious way of cracking down of the online free speech in Tunisia. It should be emphasized, however, that this is only one tool in the regime’s hand. Tunisia has adapted to the web 2.0 revolution by developing a broader strategy composed of a wide range of instruments 6 comments  · read »

August 6th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

Access to the french video-sharing website Dailymotion.com has been blocked in Turkey since August 2nd 2008. According to Erkan Saka, an Istanbul-based blogger, “the decision to ban the site came without any explanation.”

June 2nd, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian blogger Kareem El Beheiry has been released yesterday from prison. Kareem was arrested by Egyptian police in connection with the April 6th strike in support of the textile workers in Mahalla City.

May 12th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

According to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, the website of the leading Egyptian Movement for Change - Kefaya, has been blocked in Egypt since May 4 by the government-owned Internet service provider TE Data, Egypt's largest ISP.

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