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

[Stephane Bakhos]

You have our support too,

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Stephane Bakhos
Pirate Party of Canada.


On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Erik Lönroth wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:12:58 +0100
> From: Erik Lönroth <erik.lonroth at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
>     <pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
> To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
>     <pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Forward: Press Release of the Pirate Party of
>     Tunisia
> 
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 2011.01.06,
>>
>>
>>
>> Slah Eddin Kchouk aka Le Loup
>>
>> Azyz Ammami aka Azyoz GM
>>
>> Slim Ammamou aka Slim404
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tunisia is a country known for its undemocratic and corrupt political regime
>> under the presidence of Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali these past 23 years.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pirate Party Tunisia severely condemns the dictatorship of Ben Ali and will
>> engage every possible action to
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Free its members
>>
>> 2. Seek international legal course in case of torture and inhumane treatment
>> on its members.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> We're asking the international community for help to put pressure on the
>> Tunisian Government to release our members.
>>
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