Between street protests, lawyers' strike, suicide attempts and arrests of Internet users, social unrest part of Sidi Bouzid three weeks ago has continued Thursday, January 6, Tunisia, despite government measures to calm . A rapper and three activists and bloggers have been arrested by police, according to their families and the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).Last May, these bloggers had actively participated with a group of Internet in a campaign against cyber censorship and denounced lock websites. Police came looking Hamada Ben Amor, 22, better known on the internet under the nickname "The General" at his parents' home in Sfax, 5 30 pm local (4 h 30 GMT).
It was made famous by a report titled President, your people are dead, broadcast on the Internet, became a privileged space of expression for thousands of rebellious youth, including Facebook and Twitter. Amamou Slim and El Aziz Amami, two very active dissidents, were also arrested, along with blogger and activist Hamadi Kaloutcha.
He was arrested "at his home around 6 o'clock in the morning by four or five plainclothes police officers", who also seized, according to RSF, "a laptop and a CPU. Thursday, most high schools and colleges of Sidi Bouzid were on strike in this city in mourning after the burial of Mohamed Bouaziz, 26, who was slain Dec.
17 in protest against the seizure of his stall by futures municipal officials. It has since become a symbol of rebellion against social insecurity and unemployment, especially among young graduates. The movement, which has been extended to other remote regions of Central and South West, won Thursday's coastal communities, is more affluent.
A Jbeniana near Sfax (300 km south-east of Tunis), police dispersed a demonstration by students and other more violent Tala (West), where muscular arrests were reported as early as Wednesday evening. A new suicide, the third since the beginning of the unrest took place in Chebba, on the east coast, where Mohamed Slimane, 52, a construction worker and father of two college graduates unemployed, was found hanged.
The man was sick and desperate would receive assistance to recover and feed his family. A Regueb near Sfax, a youth threatened to commit suicide by electrocution to denounce corruption and inequality in employment and another was slain in Metlaoui, a mining area which had experienced problems in 2008.
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