[WSIS CS-Plenary] news: riot police surround protestors

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

Word is spreading rapidly that riot police surrounded protestors on Ave 
Bourghiba within the last hour or so. Here's the latest I've heard from 
the folks at the AMARC booth; please note that this is all second-hand 
information and unconfirmed.

"[Nobel Peace Prize laureate] Shirin Ebadi had called on them yesterday, 
pleading with them to end their hunger strike - that they were needed in 
the struggle. So they were to announce a decision this morning, and 
there was to be a press conference this morning."

"We hadn't heard anything more until half an hour ago [approximately 
12:15pm local time]," they continued. "We were told that  - our 
colleagues that are covering it  had called - and that the people were 
moving out of [hunger strike] headquarters onto the street and onto 
[Avenue] Bourghiba, and that they were surrounded by riot police. And we 
are trying to get more information from them - it was very noisy and it 
was very difficult to hear when they called here. So we have other 
people who are trying to find out what was going on."

I've posted it to my blog... Does anyone have any other information? -ac
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Andy Carvin
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EDC Center for Media & Community
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