6.LINA BEN MHENNI
As one of the few Tunisian activists to blog using her real name under the regime of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, linguistics teacher Lina Ben Mhenni was risking her safety even before the uprising against the Tunisian regime began. Although her blog — as well as her Facebook and Twitter accounts — were censored under Ben Ali, Ben Mhenni forged ahead with her reporting during the early weeks of the uprising as the only blogger present in the cities of Kasserine and Regueb when government forces violently cracked down on protesters in the Sidi Bouzid region, regularly posting photos and videos of the violence.
Today, Ben Mhenni continues to publicly condemn the widespread corruption in the current government. “The majority of young people do not feel any change at all and I think that they are right,” she wrote in an October 2011 op-ed for the Guardian. “To talk of a revolution we have to cut totally with the past and with the old regime.”
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