[WSIS CS-Plenary] false alarm: riot police surround protestors

[Andy Carvin]

Update: looks like the police didn't interfere and the protest is over.

Andy Carvin wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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.
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> "[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."
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> "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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