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Tunisian journalist sues over Facebook censorship

16 Sep 2008

Blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni last week filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking website Facebook.

He sees the blocking, which took place on 18 August, as a violation of his rights to freedom of expression and is demanding about $5,000 as compensation for damages caused by this censorship.

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