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ANHRI condemns use of violence against peaceful protesters<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\nReporters sans fronti\u00e8res: La cour confirme l’interdiction d’acc\u00e8s aux sites pornographiques<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n\n
Reporters Without Borders: Court upholds order requiring filtering of porn sites<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\nLe P\u00f4le D\u00e9mocratique Moderniste: Grand Meeting du 20 ao\u00fbt 2011, Palais des Sports El Menzah<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n\n
AP: Tunis rappelle son ambassadeur \u00e0 Damas<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\nLeaders: Dr Hamouda Ben Slama : Ce que je dis \u00e0 Rached Ghannouchi<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n\n
Le Temps: Elections de la Constituante – Quand ? Comment ? Combien \u00e7a co\u00fbte ?<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\nLa Presse: Tunisiens \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger – La r\u00e9volution sur l\u2019autre rive<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n\n
Rue89: Tunisie : une transition \u00e0 l’image d’une r\u00e9volution de carte postale<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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ANHRI condemns use of violence against peaceful protesters<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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SOURCE: Arabic Network for Human Rights Information <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
(ANHRI\/IFEX) – Cairo, 16 August 2011 – ANHRI condemns the actions of the Tunisian police in once again deploying violence, tear gas canisters, and batons against the peaceful protesters who took to the streets of the capital Tunis on Monday 15 August. The demonstration was held to demand a purge of the judiciary, the prosecution of those responsible for the corruption and the dismissal of the interim government, headed by Al-Baji Qa’ed Al-Sebsi. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
The demonstrations broke out before the Ministry of the Interior, after protesters objected to the release of al-Bashir Al-Takary, former Minister of Justice, and the fact that Mrs. Al-Aqrabi, an ally of Ben Ali and his wife, was able to flee to Paris even though she is still under judiciary prosecution. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Police forces fired tear gas canisters at the crowd and kicked and beat some of the protesters with batons. At the same time, a number of soldiers stationed themselves around the Ministry of the Interior to protect it. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
In July, the Tunisian authorities imposed a curfew in the city of Sidi Bouzid, following confrontations between police forces and protesters calling for the ouster of the interim government. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u00ab\u00a0The return of the use of violence against peaceful protesters is regretfully reminiscent of the pre-revolution situation . . . Tunisia has sparked all the revolutions and liberation movements against dictatorships in the whole of the Arab region,\u00a0\u00bb said ANHRI. \u00ab\u00a0During this critical transitional phase that Tunisia is undergoing, the authorities should consolidate the rights that were stolen in the time of the old regime, and not undertake the same practices on the grounds of maintaining stability and security, or based on any other arguments that the ousted president, Ben Ali, was known to use as a justification,\u00a0\u00bb ANHRI added.<\/font><\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
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La cour confirme l’interdiction d’acc\u00e8s aux sites pornographiques<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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SOURCE: Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
(RSF\/IFEX) – Le 16 ao\u00fbt 2011 – Le 15 ao\u00fbt 2011, la cour d’appel tunisienne a confirm\u00e9 la d\u00e9cision du 27 mai 2011 du tribunal de premi\u00e8re instance de Tunis, d’interdire l’acc\u00e8s aux sites pornographiques. L’Agence Tunisienne d’Internet (ATI) devra donc mettre en place un syst\u00e8me de censure et de filtrage. L’agence affirme ne pas avoir \u00ab\u00a0les moyens financiers et techniques pour appliquer le jugement\u00a0\u00bb et a annonc\u00e9 qu’elle d\u00e9poserait un recours devant la Cour de cassation. Selon Maitre Moneem Turki, avocat plaidant pour la fermeture des sites pornographiques, l’ATI doit cependant d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 appliquer le filtrage, puisque le recours d\u00e9pos\u00e9 par l’agence n’a pas d’effet suspensif. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res rappelle son opposition au filtrage, proc\u00e9d\u00e9 qui s’av\u00e8re inefficace et qui cause toujours le blocage de sites qui ne sont pas, \u00e0 l’origine, cibl\u00e9s par cette mesure. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Le tribunal de premi\u00e8re instance de Tunis ordonna le 26 mai 2011 le blocage de sites \u00e0 caract\u00e8re pornographiques par l’ATI, suite \u00e0 une plainte d\u00e9pos\u00e9e par des avocats estimant qu’ils pr\u00e9sentaient un danger pour les mineurs et ne convenaient pas aux valeurs musulmanes du pays. La demande de l’ATI de suspendre l’ex\u00e9cution du jugement du tribunal de premi\u00e8re instance de Tunis a \u00e9t\u00e9 rejet\u00e9e par la justice, le 13 juin dernier. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
L’ATI s’est engag\u00e9e \u00e0 ex\u00e9cuter la d\u00e9cision de justice tout en r\u00e9it\u00e9rant \u00ab\u00a0sa d\u00e9termination \u00e0 agir, en tant que point d’\u00e9change Internet, d’une mani\u00e8re transparente et neutre vis-\u00e0-vis de tous les sites \u00e0 filtrer par le biais de ses \u00e9quipements\u00a0\u00bb. Elle a communiqu\u00e9 sur les restrictions engag\u00e9es et pr\u00e9venu les utilisateurs que la r\u00e9activation du filtrage allait provoquer des d\u00e9gradations de la qualit\u00e9 de service, notamment en raison des probl\u00e8mes de maintenance du r\u00e9seau. Une application progressive a donc \u00e9t\u00e9 mise en place, depuis le 15 juin, concernant un certains nombre d’administrations, de minist\u00e8res, de maisons des jeunes et de publinets, mais pas encore pour les particuliers. Le blocage serait appliqu\u00e9 via Smartfilter de l’entreprise McAfee. Les erreurs de filtrage peuvent \u00eatre d\u00e9clar\u00e9es \u00e0 l’adresse email filtrage@ati.tn, mais l’ATI d\u00e9clare dans ses communiqu\u00e9s ne pas les assumer. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
A compter du 1 juillet, la liste des sites bloqu\u00e9s n’\u00e9tait pas encore connue. Le filtrage s’accompagne traditionnellement de surblocage de sites non concern\u00e9s par ces mesures et par un ralentissement de la bande passante. Par ailleurs, son efficacit\u00e9 est mise en doute : de nombreux internautes tunisiens ont appris, ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, \u00e0 utiliser des proxies et autres outils de contournement de la censure, pour avoir acc\u00e8s aux sites alors bloqu\u00e9s. Il a aussi un co\u00fbt financier. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Tout comme de nombreux net-citoyens tunisiens, Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res s’inqui\u00e8te du retour \u00e0 des pratiques de l’\u00e8re Ben Ali et craint que le filtrage de ces sites, dont la d\u00e9finition demeure incertaine, ne soit le pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 la censure d’autres types de contenus. Le filtrage g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9 s’inscrit en contradiction avec la neutralit\u00e9 du Net et les valeurs de libert\u00e9 d’expression pr\u00f4n\u00e9es par la Commission pour la r\u00e9alisation des objectifs de la r\u00e9volution et la transition d\u00e9mocratique.<\/font><\/div>\n\n
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Court upholds order requiring filtering of porn sites<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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SOURCE: Reporters Without Borders <\/font><\/div>\n(RSF\/IFEX) – 16 August 2011 – A Tunis appeal court yesterday upheld a 27 May 2011 court decision requiring the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to block access to pornographic websites. ATI said it would refer the case to the country’s highest appeal court because it did not have the \u00ab\u00a0financial and technical resources\u00a0\u00bb to create the filtering and censorship system needed to implement the ruling. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Moneem Turki, who represents the group of lawyers behind the legal initiative to have the filtering introduced, said ATI would have to begin implementing the order at once because it would not be suspended pending the outcome of the second appeal. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its opposition to filtering, which has proved to be ineffective in other countries in the past and ends up blocking websites that are not targeted as well as those that are. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
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On 1 July, Reporters Without Borders expressed concern that Internet censorship, widely practiced under the Ben Ali regime that was overthrown last January, could be reintroduced in Tunisia as a result of a legal initiative by a group of lawyers who obtained a court order on 26 May forcing the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to block porn sites on the grounds that they posed a threat to minors and Muslim values. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Prior to this latest appeal, the agency attempted to block the order, but its request was rejected by another court on 13 June. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
ATI had undertaken to comply with the order while reiterating \u00ab\u00a0its determination, as an Internet exchange point, to act in a transparent and neutral manner as regards all the websites to be filtered by means of its equipment.\u00a0\u00bb <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
The agency warned the public that the reactivation of filtering could lead to a deterioration in the quality of service, above all because of network maintenance problems. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
ATI began to comply with the legal initiative by stages on 15 June, introducing filtering in a number of government agencies and ministries, residences for young people and Internet caf\u00e9s, but up to 1 July not for domestic users. The Internet company McAfee’s Smartfilter is being used for the filtering. The agency has given out an e-mail address (filtrage@ati.tn) to which suspected filtering errors can be reported, but says it cannot take responsibility for any errors. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
As of 1 July, the list of blocked websites was not known. Internet filtering usually results in overblocking (the blocking of non-targeted sites as well as targeted ones) and a general slowing down of Internet bandwidth. Its effectiveness is also questionable as many Tunisian Internet users have learned in recent years to use proxies and other censorship circumvention tools to access blocked sites. There is also a financial cost. <\/font><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
Like many Tunisian netizens, Reporters Without Borders is worried by the return of Ben Ali-era practices and fears that the porn site filtering could pave the way for censorship of other kinds of content. Generalized filtering violates Net neutrality and the freedom of expression advocated by the Commission for the Realization of the Goals of the Revolution and Democratic Transition.<\/font><\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTunis rappelle son ambassadeur \u00e0 Damas<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/strong> <\/font><\/div>\n
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Publi\u00e9 le 17-08-11 \u00e0 18:50 Modifi\u00e9 \u00e0 18:44<\/font><\/div>\nTUNIS (AP) \u2014 Le gouvernement tunisien a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 mercredi de rappeler son ambassadeur \u00e0 Damas pour consultations, a annonc\u00e9 le minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, cit\u00e9 par l’agence de presse officielle TAP.<\/font><\/div>\nTunis invoque les derniers d\u00e9veloppements, qualifi\u00e9s de \u00ab\u00a0dangereux\u00a0\u00bb, que conna\u00eet la Syrie.<\/font><\/div>\nMercredi soir, un rassemblement \u00e9tait pr\u00e9vu \u00e0 Tunis \u00e0 l’appel de plusieurs associations pour protester contre la r\u00e9pression brutale des manifestations hostiles au r\u00e9gime du pr\u00e9sident Bachar el-Assad qui se d\u00e9roulent en Syrie. AP<\/font><\/div>\n\n
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Le P\u00f4le D\u00e9mocratique Moderniste<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\nGrand Meeting du 20 ao\u00fbt 2011, Palais des Sports El Menzah<\/font><\/h2>\n <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n
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Le P\u00f4le D\u00e9mocratique Moderniste organise un grand meeting \u00e0 la Coupole d\u2019El Menzah le samedi 20 ao\u00fbt 2011 \u00e0 22h00 en pr\u00e9sence du grand militant palestinien Nayef Hawatmeh, Secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du FDLP (Front D\u00e9mocratique pour la Lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine).<\/font><\/span><\/p>\nLe meeting sera marqu\u00e9 par la participation des artistes Hedi Donia et Lazhar Dhaoui avec Lamine Nehdi qui en sera l\u2019invit\u00e9 d\u2019honneur. L\u2019acc\u00e8s est gratuit<\/b>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\nLe P\u00f4le D\u00e9mocratique Moderniste est une coalition de cinq partis politiques (Mouvement Ettajdid, Parti Socialiste de Gauche (PSG), la voie du Centre, Al Wifek El Jomhouri, Mouvement pour la Citoyennet\u00e9 et la d\u00e9mocratie) et de cinq initiatives d\u2019Ind\u00e9pendants (Collectif National des Ind\u00e9pendant(e)s du p\u00f4le, Initiative Citoyenne, Ligue des Ind\u00e9pendants du Pole, Assez de Divisions, Allons de l\u2019avant et Pour Un pole d\u00e9mocratique, progressiste et culturel).<\/font><\/span><\/p>\nCes partis et initiatives ont convenu de fonder le P\u00f4le le 31Mai 2011 pour mener la bataille \u00e9lectorale le 23 Octobre prochain en pr\u00e9sentant des listes communes et un programme \u00e9lectoral commun aux \u00e9lectrices et \u00e9lecteurs dans toutes les circonscriptions \u00e9lectorales \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur et \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur du pays.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\nCette coalition r\u00e9pond \u00e0 l\u2019exigence de rassembler les forces de progr\u00e8s \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 la Tunisie traverse une p\u00e9riode d\u00e9cisive de son histoire et o\u00f9 le peuple tunisien s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 \u00e9lire une Assembl\u00e9e Constituante dont la mission essentielle est de doter le pays d\u2019une Constitution qui doit instaurer un r\u00e9gime d\u00e9mocratique sur les ruines des r\u00e9gimes despotique et autoritaire qui ont gouvern\u00e9 notre pays durant plus de 50 ans\u2026<\/font><\/span><\/p>\nLes composantes du p\u00f4le sont d\u00e9termin\u00e9es \u00e0 se battre pour sauvegarder et d\u00e9velopper l\u2019ensemble des acquis soci\u00e9taux \u00e0 caract\u00e8re progressiste conquis par le peuple tunisien au cours des d\u00e9cennies \u00e9coul\u00e9es, notamment ceux relatifs aux droits des femmes et \u00e0 l\u2019aspiration de celles-ci \u00e0 conqu\u00e9rir de nouveaux droits sur la voie de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 totale entre lesfemmes et les hommes et ce dans un souci constant de justice sociale.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n