Parti Pirate Tunisie - Pirate Party Tunisia

Press Release 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TUNIS, TUNISIA 2011.01.06 

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.

Slah Eddin Kchouk loup@partipirate.net

Slim Amamou @slim404 slim@partipirate.net

Parti Pirate Tunisie Pirate Party Tunisia http://partipirate-tunisie.org http://partipirate.net

Parti Pirate Tunisie Pirate Party Tunisia http://partipirate-tunisie.org http://partipirate.net

Azyz Ammami @azyoz azyz@partipirate.net