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Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine ben Ali brooks no online opposition; on top of other heavy-handed efforts against the Web, his regime has now jailed its first cyber-dissident.

Zouhair Yahyaoui attained the unfortunate distinction this summer of becoming Tunisia�s first Internet journalist to be imprisoned for his online work. It�s pretty clear he won�t be the last, if President Zine al-Abidine ben Ali�s harsh approach to online publishing continues.

Yahyaoui�s path to prison played out as a self-fulfilling prophecy to such an extent that it would be farce if it weren�t tragedy. His TUNeZINE criticism of the brutal regime was as creative as it was blunt and honest.

Zouhair Ben Sa�d Yahyaoui
Prison civile de Borj El Amri
1142 BORJ EL AMRI
TUNISIE