Tunisia arrests twenty for web browsing
The BBC says the Tunisian government has the strictest internet censorship regime in the world. Twenty students were arrested last week for merely reading opposition web sites. Last year the founder of the online news site Tunezine was jailed for “publishing false news”.
Twenty young men, many of them students, have been arrested in
Tunisia for looking at banned websites.The Tunisian Government is believed to censor the internet more
tightly than any other country in the world, with the possible
exception of China.A lawyer for the men, told the French news agency AFP that they are
suspected of carrying out subversive activities on the internet.He said during their arrest last week in the southern coastal city of
Zarsis, the police found and confiscated computer equipment used by
the men.[...]
Lawyers say the arrested men browsed sites including one from the
– BBC, Tunisian internet crackdown.
banned Tunisian Islamist Nahda party.