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Tunisia – RWB workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March at WSF
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO that defends freedom of information, will organize a workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March as part of the three-day 2013 World Social Forum that begun in Tunis on 26 March. The protection of journalists’ sources is no longer just a matter of professional ethics. Journalists need IT skills as well. What are the digital threats to which they are exposed and how can they fend them off? How can they (…)
Tunisia – RWB secretary-general discusses new media law with Tunisian president
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, held talks at Carthage Palace yesterday with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on the country’s new press law. The meeting provided an opportunity for the organization to express its concern at the repeated delays in the legislation, known as decree-law 116-2011, which was due to have been applied more than a year ago, and to ask the president to appoint the independent members of the Independent High (…)
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Tunisia – Need to defuse tension after violent attacks on journalists by police
Reporters Without Borders condemns the many direct physical attacks by police on journalists that took place when the media were filming their use of violence and tear-gas to disperse a demonstration organized by the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) in Tunis on 25 February. “The way the police insulted journalists and the brutality with which they dealt with some of them signals a clear return to the use of police violence against the media,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The (…)
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Tunisia – Newspaper publisher released conditionally amid continuing tension
Tunis judge Faouzi Jebali yesterday granted Nasreddine Ben Saida, the publisher of the daily Attounissia, a provisional release and postponed his trial until 8 March. Ben Saida, who went on hunger strike, was held for more than a week for publishing a photo of a football player embracing a naked model. The same judge is also presiding the trial of Nessma TV head Nabil Karoui, which has been postponed until 19 April. “We are relieved by Ben Saida’s release but it does not change the unjust (…)
Tunisia – Tunisia’s highest court overturns ruling on filtering of pornography sites
The Court of Cassation, Tunisia’s highest court, today overturned a judgement by a lower court last August banning pornographic Web content and referred the case back to appeal. “This is good news, although we would have preferred that the court had given a final ruling,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We call once again on the Tunisian justice system to reject Internet filtering once and for all on appeal.” Recourse to such practices would be a worrying backward step. Taking advantage of (…)
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Tunisia – After broadcasting Persepolis, TV station attacked, owner and staff threatened
Reporters Without Borders condemns an angry crowd’s attempt to storm Nessma TV’s Tunis headquarters and subsequent threats against the head of the station and its staff. The violence was prompted by its broadcasting of the Franco-Iranian animated film Persepolis, which some conservative Muslims regard as offensive. “There is no justification for these attacks,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. “I understand how some people may have been offended by the (…)
