News stories by Jillian C. York*

  1. OP-ED: Tunisia's Youth and Their Fight for Freedom of Expression

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    In Tunisia, a new debate is taking shape. Long suppressed by the authoritarian regime of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's free expression movement for many years existed on the fringe, comprised of bloggers, software developers, media aficionados and expats whose frustration at Tunisia's Internet censorship and surveillance regime — in place for over a decade — fomented their activism.

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