Index on Censorship Associate Editor Rohan Jayasekera this week travelled to the Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, where he had hoped to meet, among others, Tunisian activists and writers Mohamed Abbou and Lotfi Hidouri.
The Tunisian authorities put paid to that plan.
The independent Tunisian online magazine Kalima has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content, and in a separate but related incident, its editor has been abused by police in the street.
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Blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni last week filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking website Facebook.
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Index on Censorship award winner prevented from leaving country by security forces
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