Tunis Targets Pro-Freedom Arab Blogger

The New York Sun ^ | March 31, 2006 | ELI LAKE - staff reporter

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CAIRO, Egypt - A Tunisian blogger is facing a campaign of state intimidation after appearing in February at a conference at the American Enterprise Institute for Arab allies of freedom.

Since she returned to Tunis, Neila Charchour Hachicha's husband has been sentenced to prison, her house has been surveilled by the state security services, and she has become the target of a particularly dirty trick against her recently engaged daughter.

According to Ms. Hachicha, the regime's intelligence services recently distributed a doctored photograph of her daughter to make her appear to be wearing a dress without underwear. The blogger's offense was giving an interview from Washington on Al-Jazeera where she complained that there was no free speech in her native country.

[snip] In a telephone interview yesterday, Ms. Hachicha said, "I would like America to support our freedom of speech. That is all we need. We can resolve our problems through local television and the newspaper. But we need Tunisians to know about it. We need freedom of speech in our country."

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This article linked from Eye on the UN.

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lol, remember the UN conference in Tunis where they plotted to take away US 'control' of the internet and be 'fair' and give some control to all these criminal leaders of third world countries?

The UN is a joke.

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The UN needs to be reformed
it cannot put together autocrats and democrats around the same table.

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It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That's the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way.
- Mark Steyn