Arab-spring

tous les instruments qui ont été employés pour filtrer les sites web en Tunisie proviennent des pays développés. Autant dire que des firmes d'ingénierie issues des démocraties dites authentiques ont prêté main forte à la dictature de l'ancien régime, moyennant finances

Some also say that police are back to forcefully collecting bribes. For example, a Cairo-based food shop owner, who prefers to remain anonymous, describes their situation. “Before the revolution the police working at the station and undercover agents used to take bribes in the form of free breakfasts. When I refused they used to detain my employees on their way home, claiming it was for investigation purposes, as allowed under the emergency law. The detention can go on for up to several days. Right after the revolution they stopped asking for such bribes - but now such demands are back.”

One of the main demands of the revolution was to lift the state of emergency, but such a demand, four months after the start of the revolution, has yet to be granted by the current interim government.

they do not seem to be taking serious steps to change the policy orientation. For example; no one is working on cases of torture and police violations before 25 January, the violations which took place during the 18-day uprising are the only ones discussed, while the previous 30 years are ignored. Violations are also still ongoing

A la télévision, rien de neuf. Aucune nouvelle chaîne n'a été lancée depuis la chute de l'ancien régime

Dans les kiosques, deux ou trois nouveaux titres seulement

A Radio Sfax ou Radio Monastir, deux stations publiques régionales, l'information vit encore sous l'ère Ben Ali

The success of Portugal’s revolution was not inevitable. There was a significant period of political instability, social unrest and economic dislocation, and there were even efforts to hijack the revolution and take the country down an anti-democratic path.

Tunisia and Egypt have received the overwhelming majority of the nearly 740,000 people who have left Libya

They have done so in a very generous way — opening their borders, homes and hearts. At the Tunisian border, I was moved to see local poor families sharing what little they had with the newcomers.