Tunisia - Rapper arrested, detained, for lyrics critical of outcome of...
Anis Al-Marabty was arrested at his home by plainclothes officers who, after asking him if he was the author of the song "Shy Matbadel" [Nothing has changed], confiscated his computer and took him to...
View ArticleTunisia - Court urged to drop prison sentence given to journalist
An appeals court should throw out the prison sentence against journalist Abdel Aziz al-Jaridi at a 10 February hearing and authorities should use his case as an opportunity to break from the repressive...
View ArticleTunisia - Confirmation of court order could lead to return of Internet...
As the Tunisian Internet Agency has neither the financial resources nor technical capacity to establish a filtering system, it did not comply with the August 2011 court decision and referred the case...
View ArticleTunisia - IFEX-TMG concerned by series of setbacks, calls on authorities to...
The IFEX-TMG calls on the government to immediately pass the application decrees regarding the establishment of the HAICA – a regulatory body consisting of experts and representatives of all...
View ArticleTunisia - New authorities use old methods to detain newspaper publisher
Nasreddine Ben Saida remains in pre-trial custody on charges carrying a possible sentence of six months to five years in prison, despite the implementation of a new press law which protects journalists...
View ArticleTunisia - Newspaper director released pending trial
After having been kept in pretrial detention for a week, Nasreddine Ben Saïda was released pending his trial on 8 March 2012.
View ArticleTunisia - Journalists attacked by police while filming union protest
RSF is aware of at least seven attacks on journalists during the demonstration, with one assault resulting in a broken arm for one of the journalists.
View ArticleTunisia - ANHRI and Tunisian Centre for Freedom of the Press conclude first...
ANHRI and Tunisian Centre for Freedom of the Press concluded their first workshop held in Gafsa in March 2012. The workshop titled “Internet serving freedom of expression” comes within the framework of...
View ArticleTunisia - Al Jazeera journalist expelled from meeting, attacked
While covering a meeting that brought together a number of political parties, Lotfi Hajji was expelled for his political views and assaulted outside of the meeting hall.
View ArticleTunisia - Protecting free expression and free information in the new...
ARTICLE 19 hopes that international and regional standards and comparative examples indicating the best practices of states on the protection of the right to freedom of expression and freedom of...
View ArticleTunisia - Internet regulation reform vital, says ARTICLE 19
While the Internet may be partly free in practice since the ousting of President Ben Ali, the repressive laws that formed part of the censorship apparatus of his government remain. There is therefore a...
View ArticleTunisia - Seven-year prison terms handed down for mockery of Islam
Human Rights Watch calls for the revision of laws that set prison terms for “offending public morals”.
View ArticleTunisia - IFEX-TMG alarmed by ongoing attacks targeting demonstrators, media,...
The IFEX-TMG is alarmed at attacks and prison sentences based on religious morality charges, as well as the use of force by police on demonstrators.
View ArticleTunisia - Police attack journalists covering protest
The crackdown on protesters and journalists marked the worst violence seen in the country since the fall of Ben Ali's regime in January 2011.
View ArticleTunisia - New authorities, old-style crackdown
Security forces marked Martyr's Day on 9 April in Tunisia by dispersing thousands of protesters - including more than a dozen journalists - with tear gas and truncheons. It is just the latest sign that...
View ArticleTunisia - Workshop on "Internet and Free Expression" held in Sidi Bouzid
The workshop, organised by ANHRI and the Tunisian Center for Freedom of the Press, included practical training on new media and social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Flickr) and techniques of live...
View ArticleTunisia - Clashes erupt outside national TV station after talk of privatizing...
Tension had been fuelled by recent talk of “privatization of the public media” by Ennahda Movement leader Rached Ghannouchi and Ennahda political bureau member Ameur Laarayedh.
View ArticleTunisia - Regional cartoonists at IFEX-TMG workshop in Tunisia express “hope...
"This workshop has demonstrated clearly that in Tunisia editorial cartoonists will be on the cutting edge of free speech," said CRNI Executive Director Robert Russell.
View ArticleTunisia - World Press Freedom Day highlights lack of progress on media...
ARTICLE 19 calls on the government to make use of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event held in Tunis as a golden opportunity to advance the media reform package.
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