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A Tunisian group claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous - the international cyber-activist collective- has announced a new operation called "Stop AMAR 404â-' against recent measures to enhance internet security.

Government official's concerns about the security of the websites of Tunisian Interim Government ministries have increased, especially after recent cyber-attacks targeting the Tunisian Prime Minister's email account and the official website of the Ministry of Justice.

Concerns about the security of the websites of  Tunisian Interim Government ministries have increased, especially after recent breaches.

Recent cyber-attacks have targeted the Tunisian Prime Minister’s email account and the official website of the Ministry of Justice.

The government’s program for 2012, presented by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to the Constituent Assembly on April 5th, included a focus on improving Internet security by hiring new experts at the Ministry of the Interior.

On Monday 19th March the internet activist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange conducted an interview, via video teleconference, with Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki.

According to Ghassen Dridi, communication adviser for the Tunisian president; Wikileaks is organizing the discussion with Tunisian interim President Moncef Marzouki as a part of a series of interviews with international leaders. The interview sought to highlight Tunisia's role as the country that triggered the chain of democratic uprisings, often referred to as the "Arab Spring."

Last Tuesday Tunisia celebrated the National Day of Internet Freedom. A ceremony was held at the Carthage Presidential Palace, where the Tunisian President paid tribute to the memory of Zouhair Yahyaoui.

Yahyaoui was one of Tunisia's first vocal online political dissidents who fought against corruption during the Ben Ali era. His publication of the critical TuneZine blog led to his arrest and reported torture by the former regime. He died on March 13, 2005, at the age of 37.

The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous.

A representative of the Tunisian Anonymous group, calling himself "CaliforniaKB," said that the attack was motivated by the activity of the Tunisian hacking group Fellaga, who he accused of working for Hizb Ettahrir, and last Wednesday's desecration of the national flag by an Islamist protester at Manouba University.

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The hearing of the case regarding censorship of pornographic websites in Tunisia has been postponed to February 22nd, confirmed Olivia Gré, director of the Tunisian chapter of Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Tunisians reacted with anger after a new twitter policy was announced. The social network may now "re-actively withhold content from users in a specific country," so that Twitter can further expand globally and "enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression."