[pp.int.general] Forward: Press Release of the Pirate Party of Tunisia

[Erik Lönroth]

You have our support!

Keep us updated on the events and the fate of those kidnapped people.

/Erik

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Gregory Engels
<gregory.engels at pp-international.net> wrote:
>
> The following PR has been posted on the Facebook site of the PP-TN
> confirming the twitter messages that are flowting around.
> http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=184949728200130
> sincerely yours,
> Gregory Engels
> Co-Chairman
> Pirate Parties International
> mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
> skype:gregory.engels
> jabber:dichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de
>
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> Parti Pirate Tunisie - Pirate Party Tunisia
>
> Press Release
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> TUNIS, TUNISIA 2011.01.06
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> PIRATE PARTY MEMBERS FACING POLITICAL REPRESSION IN TUNISIA
>
> The Pirate Party of Tunisia involved in breaking the Tunisian media blackout
> on the social unrest happening in many Tunisian cities from December 18th
> 2010 is facing harsh political and police repression from the undemocratic
> and corrupt government of Tunisia.
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>
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> In the course of our last operations our members relayed videos and
> information on police killing young civilians, on suicide cases related to
> repression and poverty while riots are happening in the cities of Sidi
> Bouzid, Siliana and Thala. The Party is also distributing in tunisian
> universities and schools USB Keys and CD ROMS with installation of the TOR
> Software needed to circumvent the major wave of cyber censorship happening
> on the Tuninsian Internet and to protect tunisian Internet users from the
> hacking the tunisian cyber police is relying on to monitor Internet Users
> and prevent truth from being relayed online.
>
>
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> On Thursday 2011.01.06,
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> Slah Eddin Kchouk aka Le Loup
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> Azyz Ammami aka Azyoz GM
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> Slim Ammamou aka Slim404
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>
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> three members of the party, were kidnapped by the tunisian political police.
> No warrant was used. Nobody including teir families is aware of where they
> are being detained as of now. Their computers have also been confiscated by
> the police. The three young tunisians hold university degrees and wouldn't
> be involved in illegal activities.
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> Tunisia is a country known for its undemocratic and corrupt political regime
> under the presidence of Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali these past 23 years.
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> Tunisia is a country where torture while in detention or in prison is very
> common as reported and documented by Red Cross, Amnesty, HRW and other
> NGO's.
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> Pirate Party Tunisia severely condemns the dictatorship of Ben Ali and will
> engage every possible action to
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> 1. Free its members
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> 2. Seek international legal course in case of torture and inhumane treatment
> on its members.
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> In addition to our members, several other young tunisians were arrested on
> the same grounds the same day two of them are Hammadi Kaloucha a blogger and
> cyber activist and Hamada Ben Aoun a 22 year old singer and activist.
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> We're asking the international community for help to put pressure on the
> Tunisian Government to release our members.
>
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