<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>The following PR has been posted on the Facebook site of the PP-TN confirming the twitter messages that are flowting around. </div><div><br></div><div>http://<a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=184949728200130">www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=184949728200130</a></div><div><br></div></span></div></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>sincerely yours, </div><div><br></div><div>Gregory Engels</div><div>Co-Chairman</div><div>Pirate Parties International</div><div><br></div><div>mobile: +49 172 853 44 91</div><div><a href="skype:gregory.engels">skype:gregory.engels</a></div><div><a href="jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de">jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de</a></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div>=====================snip===========================</div><p>Parti Pirate Tunisie - Pirate Party Tunisia</p><p>Press Release </p><p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p>TUNIS, TUNISIA 2011.01.06 </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">PIRATE PARTY MEMBERS FACING POLITICAL REPRESSION IN TUNISIA</h2><p>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.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>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.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>On Thursday 2011.01.06, </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><em>Slah Eddin Kchouk aka Le Loup</em></p><p><em>Azyz Ammami aka Azyoz GM</em></p><p><em>Slim Ammamou aka Slim404</em></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><strong>three members of the party, were kidnapped by the tunisian political police</strong>. No warrant was used. Nobody including teir families is aware of where they are being detained as of now. <strong>Their computers have also been confiscated by the police</strong>. The three young tunisians hold university degrees and wouldn't be involved in illegal activities.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Tunisia
is a country known for its undemocratic and corrupt political regime
under the presidence of Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali these past 23 years. </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>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.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Pirate Party Tunisia severely condemns the dictatorship of Ben Ali and will engage every possible action to </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>1. Free its members</p><p>2. Seek international legal course in case of torture and inhumane treatment on its members. </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>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.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>We're asking the international community for help to put pressure on the Tunisian Government to release our members.</p></body></html>