{"id":92473,"date":"2012-06-01T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:20:06","slug":"new-arab-debates-suspend-activities-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92473","title":{"rendered":"New Arab Debates suspend activities in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>On 31 May, the <a title=\"New Arab Debates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newarabdebates.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Arab Debates (NAD)<\/a>,\u00a0a political discussion forum which takes place in MENA region countries, decided to suspend all of its operations in Tunisia after security forces disrupted the programme earlier this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>On 29 May, two police officers in plain clothes interrupted the NAD discussion on political violence in Tunisia, asking for a list containing the names of those participating in the debate. The NAD has suspended operation in retaliation to the interference, saying that the incident interfered with\u00a0their \u201cright to pursue a free speech project in a newly democratic country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a title=\"Facebook: New Arab Debates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newarabdebates\/posts\/444264012251682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>, NAD chairman Tim Sebastian, described the police conduct as a \u201cserious incident\u201d and \u00a0\u00a0a \u201cbreach of security with the utmost concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The NAD team has appealed to the Tunisian Interior Ministry, and an internal investigation is pending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 May, the New Arab Debates (NAD),\u00a0a political discussion forum which takes place in MENA region countries, decided to suspend all of its operations in Tunisia after security forces disrupted the programme earlier this week. On 29 May, two police officers in plain clothes interrupted the NAD discussion on political violence in Tunisia, asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4060],"tags":[4263,13494,13495,7352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109403,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92473\/revisions\/109403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}