164 Tunisian Museum of Human Rights

Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia has put together a nice Flash animation based on photographs I took on my last trip to Tunisia. If you’re outside of Tunisia, you can see what he did here (if you’re in Tunisia, you’ll first need to figure out how to get around the government’s attempts to censor the site).

The photos are of Abdallah Zouari’s Museum of Human Rights. Zouari, a former journalist for al-Fajr, the newspaper of the banned al-Nahdha Party, spent 11 years as a political prisoner. Since his release in 2002, he has lived under “Administrative Control” in southern Tunisia, though his wife and children live in Tunis, roughly 500 miles away. The house is under constant surveillance, and visitors and neighbors are subject to police harrassment.

While you’re on ???? , stop, have a look around, and join me in thanking Sami for his work.

[tags]Tunisia, Tunisie, Zouari, human rights[/tags]

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  1. Thank you Elijah for writing about this and for the beautiful photos you made in Zarzis. Hope it will help getting people aware about the unfair situation of Abdallah Zouari.

    Comment by Sami Ben Gharbia — June 24, 2006 #

  2. This is a bunch of garbage

    Love Nana

    Comment by H. Shirley Horne — July 23, 2006 #

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