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October 25, 2003
Tunisia gets it in the neck,
from French NGO,
Reporters without Borders.
They're campaigning hard on behalf of cyber-dissident, Zouhair Yahyaoui, who ran an
online magazine under the pseudonym Ettounsi.
Ettuunisi was recently sentenced to two years in prison for "spreading false news", after being hung by his arms through three gruelling torture sessions.
How can Tunisia pose as a friend of freedom, but jail Internet dissidents? the NGO
asks.
