Slim amamou

Slim Amamou ( Arabic سليم عمامو) (* 1977 in Tunisia ) is a Tunisian internet entrepreneur, blogger ( Twitter ID: slim404) and politician of the Tunisian Pirate Party .

He was a member of the Tunisian interim government formed by Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi , which manages the country's affairs until the first free elections.

After the fall of the Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali , a general amnesty was granted for political prisoners. Among those released was Slim Amamou, who is well known and loved in the country as a champion of freedom of expression. After his release on January 17, 2011, Amamou was appointed State Secretary for Youth and Sports (secrétaire d'État à la Jeunesse et aux Sports).

Activity as State Secretary

One of his first activities as State Secretary was a meeting with the Tunisian Minister of the Interior to clarify the responsibilities for Internet censorship and to gradually remove it. Slim Amamou resigned from his post as Secretary of State on May 23, 2011.

Award

On September 19, 2011, Slim Amamou received the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's 2011 Human Rights Prize for his commitment . Next to him, Khaled Said received the award posthumously . The Egyptian blogger was beaten to death by plainclothes police on June 6, 2010. The laudation at the award ceremony was held by the chairman of the association "Against Forgetting - For Democracy" and candidate for the office of Federal President Dr. Joachim Gauck .

Quote

When asked about the speed of the revolution, he wrote:

“The most rapid revolution in history. Because we are connected. Synchronized. "

“The fastest revolution in history. Because we are connected. Synchronized. "

Web links

• Reiner Wandler: From twitterer to ruler. Tunisia's star blogger Slim 404. In: the daily newspaper . January 25, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2011 (Portrait of Slim Amamou). 
• Profile of Slim Amamou. In: tn.linkedin.com. Retrieved January 27, 2011 (French). 
• Arlene Goldbard: Ambassor from the present. In: arlenegoldbard.com. January 25, 2011, accessed January 27, 2011 . 
• “I owe a lot to the network community” - An interview with the Tunisian activist Slim Amamou. . In: [di.wan] Berlin, accessed on February 2, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marlene Weiss, Protests in Tunisia - From the street to the network . In: sueddeutsche.de , January 14, 2011 (accessed January 29, 2011)
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3. ↑ Thomas Schmid, The Revolutionary in the Presidential Palace . In: Tages-Anzeiger , updated online January 20, 2011 (accessed: January 21, 2011)
4. ↑ Dominic Johnson, The Blogger Disembarks . In: taz.de , May 24, 2011 (accessed January 15, 2012)
5. ↑ [di.wan] Berlin, “I owe a lot to the network community” - An interview with the Tunisian activist Slim Amamou , In: [di.wan] Berlin (accessed January 25, 2012)
6. ↑ Program of the event for the presentation of the 2011 Human Rights Prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, http://www.fes.de/international/nahost/pdf/FES%20E%20MRP%202011.pdf
7. ↑ David D. Kirkpatrick, Tunisia's Inner Workings Emerge on Twitter In: The New York Times , January 22, 2011. (Accessed January 29, 2011)