Tunisia’s second coming

Posted by on May 15, 2012 in Afef Abrougui, Attounissia, Censorship, Dawn Smith, Dawn Smith Brighton Michigan, Freedom of Expression, Michael Parker, Middle East and North Africa, Nessma TV, RSS Syndicated Posts, tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Six months after Tunisia’s first free elections, the country’s newspapers are filled with nostalgic longing for its former dictator. Even if his rule was a “veritable one-man-show”, muses La Presse, “was his dictatorship really ha…

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Tunisia: Attacks against journalists on the rise

Posted by on May 8, 2012 in Afef Abrougui, Dawn Smith, Dawn Smith Brighton Michigan, Ennahda, Freedom of Expression, Middle East and North Africa, National Syndicate for Tunisian Journalists, Nawaat, Nessma TV, Press freedom, RSS Syndicated Posts, tunisia

In its annual report published on World Press Freedom Day (3 May), the National Syndicate for Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) announced that it had registered 60 physical assaults against journalists over the last year. The syndicate criticised the “pass…

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Free expression in Tunisia 18 months on

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in Freedom of Expression, IFEX-TMG, Middle East and North Africa, Nawaat, Nessma TV, PEN Tunisia, Press freedom, Rohan Jayasekera, RSS Syndicated Posts, tunisia, world press freedom day

Members of the IFEX-TMG gathered in Tunis for World Press Freedom Day to mark the launch of four new initiatives to support Tunisian rights to freedom of expression, which remains under threat despite the gains of the past year. The new work includes a…

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Verdict due in Persepolis trial – key test of free expression in Tunisia

Posted by on May 1, 2012 in Afef Abrougui, Middle East and North Africa, Nabil Karoui, Nessma TV, Persepolis, Press freedom, RSS Syndicated Posts, Sofiene Ben H'mida, tunisia

A Tunis court is expected to issue a verdict in the prosecution of a television station broadcaster which aired the award-winning French-Iranian film Persepolis tomorrow (3 May). If convicted of “violating sacred values”, Nabil Karoui, Nessma TV&…

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