Free speech concerns continue to dog WSIS Tunisia meeting plans

[Chris Chiu]

The International Press Institute has passed a resolution calling for "plans to hold the second World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia in November 2005 to be abandoned unless that country demonstrates its respect for human rights, notably freedom of expression and press freedom." Among other things, IPI noted that "[d]espite such calls, Tunisia continues to imprison its journalists and other citizens for exercising freedom of speech" and questioned whether "participants in the Summit" will "be allowed freely to publish and distribute at the conference site any written or recorded materials, such as newspapers, reports, pamphlets or leaflets - including those containing questions, criticisms or information about human rights abuses in Tunisia".

See
http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Technology Policy Analyst
American Civil Liberties Union