Four journalists and rights activists from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia were prevented by their governments from traveling to Beirut to attend a regional forum on Arab press freedom on Friday. Over 160 journalists, bloggers, publishers, editors and press freedom advocates […]
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Tunisia responds to critical CPJ report
We received a large package from the Tunisian Embassy in Washington on Friday. The package contained an official response to […]
Je ne suis pas le premier journaliste tunisien à subir ce sort, mon espoir est d’être le dernier
Condamné en décembre dernier, à un an de prison pour “outrage à fonctionnaire dans l’exercice de ses fonctions”, “atteinte aux […]
Fighting for press freedom in Tunisia
Every once in a while you run across people whose courage makes you ask of yourself if you would act […]
Press Freedom Groups Raise Tunisian Concerns With French President
A coalition of international press freedom organisations has asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy not to underestimate human rights violations in […]
SNJT : bas les masques, arrêtons la comédie !!
Curieux paradoxe, l’adjectif « lâche » a aussi un sens….propre ! Il signifie : méprisable, abject, infâme. Mais il a, […]
Tunisia : Journalist From Website www.bakchich.info Expelled
Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) PRESS RELEASE Reporters Without Borders has criticised the Tunisian authorities for expelling French journalist Léa Labaye, of the satirical website http://www.Bakchich.info, who was sent back to Paris immediately after arrival in Tunisia on 16 September 2006, without any official explanation. “This expulsion demonstra […].
The Press in the Maghrib
Between a Rock (Censorship) and a Hard Place (Prison) By Hamid Skif From Mauritania to Egypt, which borders with the Maghrib, not a day goes by without journalists being harassed because of their work. To mark the International Day of the Freedom of the Press, the Algerian journalist and author Hamid Skif sums up the situation. Without a doubt, the Kaf […].
