Home<\/span> – Accuei<\/span><\/a>l<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res: Tunisie – Intimidation et brutalit\u00e9, le quotidien des journalistes<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n <\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n La police politique de Nabeul arr\u00eate le jeune Wissem Toumi<\/strong> Des agents de la police politique de Nabeul ont arr\u00eat\u00e9 dans la matin\u00e9e du lundi 15 f\u00e9vrier 2010 l\u2019\u00e9tudiant Wissem Toumi, originaire de la r\u00e9gion d\u2019A\u00efn Kmicha, distante de 3 kilom\u00e8tres de Nabeul, et l\u2019ont conduit dans un lieu inconnu. Sa famille ignore toujours la raison et le lieu de sa d\u00e9tention. L\u2019\u00e9tudiant Wissem Toumi a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 alors qu\u2019il descendait du car qu\u2019il prend pour rejoindre l\u2019Institut Sup\u00e9rieur d\u2019Etudes Technologiques de Nabeul. [\u2026] L\u2019\u00e9tudiant Mohammed Manita en butte au harc\u00e8lement et la saisie de son ordinateur et de son portable<\/strong> Samedi 13 f\u00e9vrier 2010, l\u2019\u00e9tudiant Mohammed Manita, originaire de\u00a0 Menzel Abderrahmane, \u00e9tudiant en troisi\u00e8me ann\u00e9e de math\u00e9matiques \u00e0 la facult\u00e9 des sciences de Bizerte, a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 et rel\u00e2ch\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019issue de son interrogatoire, mais son portable et son ordinateur ont \u00e9t\u00e9 saisis. Lorsqu\u2019il a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 ce qu\u2019ils lui soient restitu\u00e9s, seule sa carte d\u2019identit\u00e9 lui a \u00e9t\u00e9 rendue. [\u2026] La famille du prisonnier d\u2019opinion Mohammed Lafi priv\u00e9e de parloir<\/strong> L\u2019administration de la prison de Mornaguia a interdit de parloir lundi 15 f\u00e9vrier la famille du prisonnier d\u2019opinion Mohammed Lafi au motif qu\u2019il \u00e9tait puni d\u2019une mise au cachot individuel. Ce prisonnier, un \u00e9tudiant, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 violemment agress\u00e9 la semaine pass\u00e9e par des agents de la prison. Il en avait r\u00e9sult\u00e9 une fracture du nez, ce qui avait pouss\u00e9 nombre de prisonniers \u00e0 d\u00e9clencher une gr\u00e8ve de la faim illimit\u00e9e pour protester contre cette agression et contre les mauvais traitements qui leur sont inflig\u00e9s. Le parquet fait appel de la condamnation et Wissem Testouri reste en prison<\/strong> Le parquet a fait appel du jugement en premi\u00e8re instance prononc\u00e9 contre le militant des droits humains Wissem Testouri, actuellement emprisonn\u00e9 \u00e0 la prison de Mornag et le condamnant \u00e0 un mois d\u2019emprisonnement. Le 15 f\u00e9vrier aurait d\u00fb \u00eatre sa derni\u00e8re journ\u00e9e d\u2019incarc\u00e9ration. [\u2026] Pour le Bureau ex\u00e9cutif de l\u2019Organisation Le Pr\u00e9sident Ma\u00eetre Mohammed Nouri<\/font><\/strong> (traduction d\u2019extraits ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par les auteurs de la version en arabe, LT)<\/font><\/div>\n A fin d\u2019\u00e9voquer le combat de Farhat Hached et de pr\u00e9senter l\u2019association V\u00e9rit\u00e9 et justice pour Farhat Hached<\/font><\/p>\n <\/strong> \u00a0 Nous vous invitons \u00e0 une rencontre avec Ren\u00e9e Galissot, Mohamed Harbi et Gilles Manceron<\/font><\/strong> le 23 Fevrier 2010 \u00e0 19h au CICP 21TER, rue Voltaire 75011 Metro Rue de Boulet Rue de Montreuil Ligne 9 <\/font>verite.assassinat.fhached@gmail.com<\/font><\/a>. <\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n <\/font><\/div>\n <\/font><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n Today we got a message from Youtube informing us that the ability to post new videos on Youtube has been temporarily disabled for violating the <\/span>YouTube Community Guidelines<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> because of a video deemed \u201c<\/span>inappropriate<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u201d We are pretty sure that some Tunisian pro-government users have flagged it as inappropriate, even we cannot prove it. This is the message we received:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Tunisie : enfants des zones d\u00e9favoris\u00e9es (Nawaat)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n While it might not seem fair to say you can\u2019t show something because of what viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line at content that\u2019s intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death. It\u2019s not okay to post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making. Any depictions like these should be educational or documentary and shouldn\u2019t be designed to help or encourage others to imitate them.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n This is the second Community Guidelines warning sanction your account has received within six months. Accordingly, the ability to post new content to YouTube from this account has been disabled and will not return until two weeks after you acknowledge this message. Please review the YouTube Community Guidelines and refrain from further violations, which may result in the termination of your account(s).<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n The video in question (also available on our <\/span>Posterous<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> page), titled Tunise : enfants des zones d\u00e9favoris\u00e9es<\/em> (Tunisia: Children from disadvantaged areas), shows a groupd of 6 – 7 year old Tunisian kids inhaling glue and talking about why and from where they\u2019re getting the substance. Sniffing glue, which is considered <\/span>gateway drug<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>, is a very dangerous practice among Tunisian teens and kids from disadvantaged areas and we don\u2019t understand why the video has been found to violate Youtube Terms of Use! Though one can legitimately ask if the <\/span>video of Neda Agha-Soltan\u2019s death on June 20, 2009 on Youtube <\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>was not inappropriate or graphic? Does it not violate Youtube Terms of Use or is it \u2018<\/span>Too Distressing to Ignore<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u2018 as Mashabe described it?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n By rejecting our video, which caused the temporary suspension of our account on its platform, Google is banning what is considered to be the first citizen video that tries to document this practice and share it among our fellow citizens and with the world. By publishing it on Youtube and other video-sharing websites, Nawaat is not encouraging drug abuse nor helping others to imitate those poor kids. This is not nawaat\u2019s mission. Nawaat has been launched to help Tunisians and their friends get access to all kind of barred information. We are providing a platform to anyone who wants to express his or her idea freely without censorship or fear. While we are and intend to remain independent of any political party or NGO, we opened our platform as a space to support democracy and protest human rights abuses in our country. One of our goals is to build an anti-propaganda machine against the very sophisticated and quite crafty official Tunisian propaganda. And precisely that rejected video was meant to counter <\/span>Tunisia\u2019s official discourse on Child protection and health<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n It\u2019s worth mentioning here that this is not the first time that Youtube administrators shut down human rights activists accounts because of inappropriate content. In late 2007, our Egyptian friend, blogger and journalist, Wael Abbas, who documents human rights abuses by Egyptian police, temporarily had <\/span>his Youtube<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> account <\/span>suspended<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> after publishing the infamous <\/span>video of an Egyptian bus driver being sodomized with a stick by the Egyptian police officers<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>. Let us also recall that it was thanks to that same video published on Youtube that justice was served and that the two Egyptian torturers were sentenced to three years in jail for sodomizing and torturing the driver.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n The irony is that during the <\/span>Breaking Borders<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> event that was organized by Google in november last year to commemorate the<\/span>20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin wall<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>, I answered a question, on how to support online free speech, asked by Rachel Whetstone Vice President, Public Policy and Communications at Google, by saying that Google should not suspend human rights activists accounts like what happened with the aforementioned case of my friend Wael Abbas (I also highlighted the importance of adding https to blogspot blogging platform, a step which I still believe is crucial to help protect the identity of anonymous bloggers under repressive regimes – The video of the panel discussion during the Breaking Borders event is<\/span> availbale on Google Freedom of Expression@Google YouTube-Channel<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Now that our ability to publish new content on Youtube has been disabled, temporarily, for two weeks, and threatened to be terminated in case we publish another \u201cinappropriate\u201d video (and we certainly will), what are the lessons that we should learn from this incident:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n – activist should consider hosting their video materials on Witness\u2019 <\/span>The HUB,<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> which I believe is a very good alternative to Youtube, as it is a global platform totally dedicated to human rights media.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n – activists should host their own content, if they can afford it (we cannot), or publish it on multiple platforms, not only as a long-term backup strategy but as a viral strategy as well. The sword of a sudden suspension of their account can fall at any time, especially if you are not an activist from Iran or China, countries that score high on the Index of what I call the \u201cbusiness of online free speech and digital activism\u201d. Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mauritania, Libya, etc., are forgotten cases; Unfortunately, we do not attract enough media attention and we won\u2019t, we are not sexy enough, not only for the average online freedom of expression \u201cadvocates\u201d, but for the most dedicated ones as well, those self-proclaimed \u201cMeta-activists\u201d and social media gurus! The few <\/span>good<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> exceptions that are doing their <\/span>best<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> to raise <\/span>awareness<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span> and support our causes are our only allies who have been at our side in all tragic events. All the rest are a lost case, you cannot rely on them during difficult situations, especially the NGO\u2019s world. Digital activism, Twitter Revolution, Internet equal democracy bullshit, all that hype is only an unprecedented opportunity for raising money, promoting own agenda (political, ideological), building over inflated egos- you name it.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\nTUNISIE Intimidation et brutalit\u00e9, le quotidien des journalistes<\/font><\/h2>\n
Nouvelles des libert\u00e9s en Tunisie<\/font><\/h2>\n
A une soir\u00e9e-d\u00e9bat<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Google has disabled the ability for Nawaat to upload new videos<\/strong><\/font> <\/font><\/h2>\n