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Tunisia: Dailymotion Censored April 1st

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 @ 23:52 UTC

by Alice Backer

Countries:: Tunisia
Topics:: Breaking News, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Humanitarian, Media, Protest

Tunisian blogger Astrubal writes[Fr]: “Tunisian blogs and sites have been censored, then those of civil society, then those of LEGITIMATE political parties, now the stupidity of Ben Ali's regime is attacking Dailymotion, one rare remaining space of freedom for Tunisians… Yesterday (April 1st), the Ben Ali dictatorship decided to behead Dailymotion in public .” The blogger posts a Dailymotion clip of a 2004 Bush-Ben Ali conference.

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[...] Following the ban imposed by the Tunisian authorities on the popular video sharing site Dailymotion, Tunisian bloggers and activists have launched the “Unblock Dailymotion campaign”, on April 6th, 2007, in order to highlight the unfair ban and to draw the public attention to the aggressive censorship prevailing in the country. Sami Ben Gharbia [...]

# 2007-04-7 at 6:30 am
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[...] to April 2007. Following the ban on Dailymotion, Tunisian bloggers and activists from Nawaat.org launched the “Unblock Dailymotion [...]

# 2008-08-20 at 1:53 am
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[...] to April 2007. Following the ban on Dailymotion, Tunisian bloggers and activists from Nawaat.org launched the “Unblock Dailymotion [...]

# 2008-08-20 at 2:37 am
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[...] to April 2007. Following the ban on Dailymotion, Tunisian bloggers and activists from Nawaat.org launched the “Unblock Dailymotion [...]

# 2008-08-20 at 2:37 am
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[...] to April 2007. Following the ban on Dailymotion, Tunisian bloggers and activists from Nawaat.org launched the “Unblock Dailymotion [...]

# 2008-08-20 at 22:26 pm

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