Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 @ 11:52 EDT
Tunisia, Middle East & North Africa, Breaking News, Weblog
As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World Summit for the Information Society in November, Tunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the Tunisian authorities.
The online protest, called “Freedom of Expression in Mourning,” is organized by The Tunisian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Cyberspace (Association Tunisienne pour la Promotion et la Défense du Cyberespace). Here is how they describe the protest and its motivations:
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be held in Tunisia from 16th to 18th November 2005. More info
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A note from: Neila Charchour Hachicha
Freedom of speech and democracy must be universal causes, so I invite any person willing to support us in this very pacific initiative to send a photo even anonymously with only a name or a nickname to manif@yezzi.org to say with us “Enough is Enough”
View the protesters
(Sami so kindly created the image on the right with my photo to give support to our cause as well)
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Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Check out the Tunisia Monitoring Group campaign, which is drawing world attention to Internet censorship and human rights violations in Tunisia.
http://campaigns.ifex.org/tmg
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