Pambazuka News

Africa: Media rights group hails Tunisia, Egypt online progress

2011-03-14, Issue 520

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/71693


A press freedom watchdog took Egypt and Tunisia off its online censorship blacklist following their recent revolutions and awarded a web media award to Tunisian news bloggers. In Egypt, 'the heavy filtering (of Internet sites) at the height of the revolution has reportedly ended,' said Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in an annual report on the eve of its World Day Against Cyber-Censorship.