The association has complied with all legal and administrative procedures provided for by Decree No. 88, and met all the requirements set out in the warning issued by the Secretary General of the Government on November 26, 2024. Despite submitting all the requested documents on December 25, 2024, the association’s legal representative found that the notification had been discreetly issued on December 18, 2024, without ever being officially communicated.
Our legal representative only became aware of it during the marathon of interrogations and investigations to which the association’s team was subjected at the El Gorjani Criminal Brigade barracks in 2024, which continued into this year.
Nawaat is clearly being targeted by a political decision, with the aim of silencing it and stifling all media resistance to the dictatorship.
This arbitrary decision comes in the wake of a series of harassment incidents, investigations, and financial and tax controls conducted with the aim of hindering Nawaat’s activities.
The notification document was slipped under the door of the association’s headquarters without anyone bothering to knock, even though our legal representative and the whole team were present on site.
In these dark circumstances, the Nawaat Journalists’ Association reaffirms its commitment to the values of press and expression freedom, as well as its editorial charter, dedicated to the values of liberty, justice, and equality.
Nawaat emphasizes its categorical rejection of arbitrary measures and repression targeting independent media and civil society. Moreover, we reject attempts to impose a media blackout and to silence free voices, with the aim of masking the authorities’ inability to respond to protest movements by any means other than police brutality. Despite constant accusations of treason and online defamation instigated by regime supporters, Nawaat has reported on protest movements professionally.
Nawaat, which began its work in 2004 under Ben Ali’s dictatorship, has remained true to its activist editorial line after the revolution, never intimidated by judicial proceedings. The campaigns of defamation, harassment, and intimidation targeting our association for more than a year will not make us yield.
While announcing its commitment to implement the decision to suspend its activities for one month, Nawaat declares that it will appeal this unjust and arbitrary measure in court.
We have all the documents, the evidence, and arguments confirming the strength of our position. And we reaffirm our commitment to defend just causes and to resist injustice and oppression.
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