[New-imc] TUNISIA

[Jay]

Hello!

My name is Jay and I'm a member of the Philadelphia Independent Media Center. 
I'm also part of the working group that helps aspiring IMCs like yours by
answering questions and guiding you, where you need guidance, through the
process of forming an independent media center in your area.  

I'm so excited to hear about interest in starting an IMC in Tunisia.  That's
great.  I see Boud has already written back to you, suggesting you take a look
at the page "http://newimc.indymedia.org".  That page should give you an
idea of
how to proceed.

Please feel free to ask me, Boud, or the working group that deals with aspiring
imcs (new-imc at indymedia.org is our address), if you have any questions
whatsover.  We'll do our best to help.

Jay

At 09:50 AM 06/19/2002 +0200, you wrote:
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>Hi everyone!
>We are a group of tunisians dissidents  who needs help to build a Tunisian 
>indymedia site.
>We are prepared to contribute financially to the realisation of the project.
>We in tunisia are desperately in need of help,I really don`t know where to 
>start so I send you this letter as an ”introduction ” to the tunisian case.
>Don`t let us down!
>
>
>Dear friends,
>
>
>By the present letter,the ”editorial staff” of  WWW.TUNeZINE.COM ,or wha is 
>left of it, call for your urgent intervention to help us release our 
>friend,colleague  and webmaster of  the TUNeZINE netforum and 
>magazine;Zouhair Yahyaoui ,who wrote under the cover of a pseudonym 
>:Ettounsi.We  have good reasons to fear for the safety and above all the 
>physical integrity of Ettounsi.Our police forces are not  nown for their 
>kind hospitality but more for their brutality and the records  of their 
>actions shows all that ,in details for the interested (Human-rights 
>watch.amnesty international,ligue tunisienne des droits de l`homme..etc.).
>Zouhair is the founder and the  manager of the website TUNeZINE founded in 
>july 2001 with the noble purpose to give free speach a little oasis of  
>peace in the information desert  of Ben-Ali`s Tunisia.
>The site is of course censured  by the authorities since its creation a year 
>ago,and  is still blocked from tunisia,together with other sites such as 
>AMNESTY,HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH,the french newspaper LE MONDE,REPORTERS SANS 
>FRONTIERS ....etc...But tunisians,like so many other opressed people on 
>earth, found  a way to fool the government`s tight control on the internet 
>through the use of proxies.
>  Zouhair Yahyaoui,aged 35,is an unemployed  university graduate with no 
>political affiliation or involvment in any association whatsoever.The 
>internet and computers is his main interests.
>Zouhair also happens to be born free and proud of his noble values,values 
>which he shares with you ,dear friends, and all freedom lovers in the 
>world.He also happens to be the nephew of judge Mokthar Yahyaoui,the man who 
>in an open letter to president Ben-Ali denounced the lack of independence 
>and other deficiencies plaguing our judicial system. As a reward for his 
>honesty  judge Yahyaoui lost his job and most  of his basic rights,like 
>traveling abroad or meeting with friends without the usual harrasments by 
>the political police,our own STASI-like brigades, operating outside of the 
>law.Thus we fear that the family link between Zouhair and Mokthar  doesn`t 
>play to the advantage of our friend Zouhair.On the contrary,we fear that his 
>”kinship” with judge Yahyaoui will worsen his chances of gaining his 
>freedom.
>
>  Zouhair Yahyaoui  was arrested last Tuesday(4th of june) at  his workplace 
>,a cyber-cafe in a tunis suburb where he worked.The place was stormed by  6 
>men in plain clothes,from the so-called poltical police.They then took him 
>to his home  where they confiscated his computer .
>  A few hours after his arrest the site(TUNeZINE) disappeared from the 
>net(the site is still functioning in Europe ),and once again we believe that 
>the PP(political police) must have used much of their usual brutality to 
>”extract”  access codes, protocols,passwords,e-mail ardresses..etc from 
>Zouhair.His terrified parents stood by,unable to do anything to help their 
>son..Needless to say that the PP never gave any information about where he 
>was to be taking,nor why he was arrested in the first place!
>
>  The arrest of  Zouhair made of him the symbol of a new generation of 
>talented young men and women who refuses to be  silenced and are determined 
>to make themselves heard.
>
>
>
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>
>     Maherbaal.
>
>TNT (tunezine news team)
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