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I don't know the exact content, I am not familiar with the arabic language, but he's accusing the now former Tunisian president and government policies of letting their people starve and die, the unemployment, public freedom restrictions and censorship.
He had been  arrested for releasing this song on January, 6th this year, but was released five days later.

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Well, hmm.... Doesn't sound like he got off too bad. I wonder if he's thought of moving to Britain or someplace else?

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Yes, maybe he was lucky because the revolt was already seething, I don't know. Many others are not so lucky. Inetellectual dissidents like journalists and writers who are politically prosecuted get much more attention in public media than prosecuted dissidental  musicians. Thanks to the Freemuse organization this is slowly changing.

http://www.freemuse.org/sw305.asp