(1) Morasil Alkaseeby- the Asr magazine on March 4, 2006, January 17 visit, 2007.
http://www.alasr.ws/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentID=7528

(2) Sadaam Hussein won 99.9% in a 1995 referendum and 100% in a 2002 referendum

(3) "The civil society sheds light on Tunisia's record on human rights" Stefania Milan, the World Summit on the Information Society website, November 18, 2005.
http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/tunis/viewstoryarabic.asp?idnews=23
The visit of May 14, 2007.

(4) Human Rights Watch's report for 2007.

(5) Front Line organization
http://info.frontlinedefenders.org/arabic/award/3696

(6) Islamonline website on May 7, 2000
http://www.islamonline.net/iol-arabic/dowalia/alhadath2000-may-7/alhadat...

(7) The October 18th movement was formed after a number of political parties and national organizations in Tunisia went on a hunger strike under the slogan "Famine is better than submission" on that same day. The body then became a national democratic and peaceful movement known as 18 October which is calling for: freedom of association for all, freedom of expression for all, the release of hundreds to political prisoners left for a decade and a half inside the Tunisian prisons. The Tunisian people answered the movement call and did not stay behind not even in one district, Tunisia was late to form a supporting committee to this movement and many European, Western and Arab organization supported these demands. Since that date the supporting body in Germany was formed to stand by the hunger strikers and that media page on the Internet was open to help in exposing the amount of suffering the Tunisian people bears.

(8) October 18th movement's report on freedom of expression in Tunisia
http://www.aktion18oktober.com/arabic/index.php

(9) October 18th movement's report on freedom of expression. Same source

(10) A copy of the letter of support the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and published on the Network's website.
http://www.hrinfo.net/tunisia/makal/2005/pr0907.shtml "

(11) The Al-rai Am newspaper on 4, 5 June 2007.
http://www.alraialaam.com/04-06-2007/ie5/articles.htm#7
http://www.alraialaam.com/05-06-2007/ie5/articles.htm#top

(12) The National Council for Freedoms' statement on April 6, 2007. also it is published on the council's section on the Arabic Network's website

(13) The National Council for Freedoms on April 7, published on the Council's section on the Arab Network

(14) A journalist in the daily Ahram and a union activist has many significant essays about the press

(15) The incident mentioned in index 10

(16) Bard bin Saood, a journalist in Okaz newspaper, part of his essay published on April 2, 2007 in Okaz
http://www.okaz.com.sa/okaz/osf/20070402/Con20070402100034.htm

(17) The same source

(18) A meeting with Khalid Alsergany, a writer Al-Ahram and the managing editor of the independent Al-Dostour, who also edits a weeky page in Al-Dostour about the conditions of journalism and journals in Egypt.

(19) The state run Al-akhbar on March 21, 2007, page nine, the same page that publishes Arab and international news.

(20) Bard bin Saood