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Tunisia: Court dismiss cooking oil lawsuits against opposition dailyDate:13/05/2009 A Tunis court has dismissed the lawsuits that five Tunisian companies brought against the opposition daily Al Maoukif over an April 2008 article about an Algerian import ban on their cooking oil because it was said to be tainted...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Police in Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaperDate:22/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Gafsa (400 km southwest of Tunis) have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Academic sentenced to eight months in prison for posting message on FacebookDate:13/07/2009 On 4 July 2009, Tunis's Court of First Instance sentenced academic and rights defender Dr...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Attacks on Freedom of ExpressionDate:02/02/2009 The Tunisian government is confirming again its strong support for freedom of speech...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Government wages smear campaign against Al JazeeraDate:10/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns a smear campaign against Al Jazeera in which the Tunisian government is using both state-run and pro-government media to accuse the Qatar-based satellite TV station of acting as the mouthpiece President Ben Ali’s opponents...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: In Tunisia, court orders transfer of syndicate boardDate:09/09/2009 'The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Tunisian court’s decision to recognize a pro-government board of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (NSTJ)...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: In Tunisia, government allies oust syndicate boardDate:18/08/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the ousting of the board of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (NSTJ) on Saturday...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TUNISIA: Kalima website targeted, police attack OLPEC secretary generalDate:16/10/2008 The online magazine Kalima (http://www...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Rights Activist Arrested, Threatened Date:21/09/2009 'New York) - The Tunisian government should end the harassment of the human rights activist and journalist Abdallah Zouari immediately, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia jails dissident reporter Taoufik Ben Brik Date:26/11/2009 A prominent critic of Tunisian leader President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been jailed for six months after a trial criticised by rights groups...
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Thursday, 26 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia tries to oust head of journalist syndicate Date:14/05/2009 Tunisian government efforts to force out the president of a critical journalists union is part of a campaign to eliminate independent media in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisian leader defends law accused of limiting free speechDate:08/11/2010 Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali defended Sunday a controversial law that critics say limits press freedom as he announced increased subsidies to opposition parties and their newspapers...
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Monday, 8 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TunisiaDate:11/02/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Tunisia...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunis crowds gather for anti-censorship marchDate: 16 October 2011 "In the latest turn in an increasingly heated debate between Islamic conservatives and secularists in Tunisia, thousands of liberal demonstrators...
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Sunday, 16 October 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 17 October 2011
Tunisian police and conservatives clash over 'blasphemous' filmDate: 16 October 2011 "TUNIS // Worshippers chanting "Allahu Akbar"; crowds on a motorway under a black flag; vans unloading riot police; young men hurling stones ...
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Sunday, 16 October 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Tunisia Testing Newfound Freedom of ExpressionPublished:
Monday, 31 October 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 7 November 2011
Tunisia Faces a Balancing Act of Democracy and ReligionDate: 30 January 2012 "TUNIS — The insults were furious. “Infidel!” and “Apostate!” the religious protesters shouted at the two men who had come to the courthouse to show...
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Monday, 30 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Tunisia: Marzouki Calls For Criminalising ‘Takfir’Date: 07 March 2012 "Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki recently issued a call to the Constituent Assembly to adopt a law incriminating takfir, or accusations of apostasy...
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Tunisia’s Setback in Freedom of ExpressionDate: 24 June 2012 "Recent violence in Tunisia set off by religious radicals’ reaction to an art exhibition that they deemed offensive to Islam has revived a discussion here...
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Sunday, 24 June 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 26 June 2012