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POV in edits

I have trouble with this set of edits from November 19. Someone else should look at them and try to excise the POV from the two versions shown. +sj 01:55, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to edit this entry in List of Dictators. Wizzy…☎ 21:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I did some slight NPOV, it appeared to me that this article is a little against Ben Ali. In a sentence or two I added something like: say human rights organizations. Skyscrap27 | Talk to me, people! 06:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citations should be added for reports of death, abduction, and political prisoners. Further, there appears to be one line out of place in the first paragraph on appointments, "Many disappearances deaths and torture cases were reported to the human rights organisations". This is repeated later in the Works as President section, last paragraph. ~~

Banning of headscarves...

Hi, re the "supression of Muslim dress" section

not claiming to be an expert on Tunisia, but after a 10 days in the country, it doesn't seem that the crackdown on headscarves in public is anything that is still undertaken. The split between women wearing them and not is about 50/50, I'd say. It might be worth rechecking this - Ben Ali appears to be very much against it, and he might have had a go last year, but there are way too many women wearing scarves for this to be an actively enforced policy.

Just my one thing - I hope there is an expert around who can confirm-refute this!

(btw, am complete newbie on Wikipedia, so don't bite me if I didn't follow etiquette!)

I am tunisian and even though Headscarves (hijab) is banned from schools, public administration etc.. I have never seen police (regular police, or political police) asking women to remove Hijab ON THE STREET , in my opinion it is not worth mentionning since it is not widespread. but students and women are obliged to remove hijab on schools and public administrations.

AMAZING FACT

Its amazing that a so called muslim country has banned Head scarves. Isn't this against freedom. If muslims can fight legally against it, then why can't Tunisians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.223.126 (talk) 12:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Potential bias in recent edits

See Talk:Tunisia#Significant_changes to article. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 21:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Net worth 5 billion?

Who said so?