Tunisia
Campaigns and Advocacy
3 May 2012
IFEX-TMG launches new initiatives on World Press Freedom Day
The new work includes a literary anthology edited by the president of PEN Tunisia Naziha Rejiba, a training manual on online advocacy, a workshop for cartoonists, and a national newspaper and billboard campaign championing free expression rights as Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly continues to negotiate a new national constitution.
3 May 2012
Workshops on "Internet serving freedom of expression" conclude ahead of World Press Freedom Day
The workshop included theoretical, technical, and practical training on blogging, social networks, photography, and filming in support of freedom of expression.
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From the Communiqué
11 April 2012
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 despite Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali being the first dictator to fall in the Arab uprisings, old-style free expression violations continue, reports the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members.
21 December 2011
Free expression landscape in state of malaise post-Ben Ali, says IFEX-TMG
Almost a year after the overthrow of President Ben Ali, the free expression field is in a state of "malaise" due to decades of censorship and repression, said members of the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG). Meeting in Tunis last week to discuss the free expression landscape in the new Tunisia, IFEX-TMG members came up with a slew of recommendations that could help the country move forward.
26 October 2011
Media freedom in question after first post-revolution elections
With 90 per cent of eligible voters in Tunisia participating in a free election for the first time in 55 years on 23 October, IFEX members are calling for numerous reforms and political commitments to nurture this great yearning for democracy. Violent attacks on a Tunis TV station earlier this month have hit home the need for security, legal reform and educational campaigns.
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Reports
4 May 2012
Fleeting Words: An Anthology of Revolution launched for World Press Freedom Day
The anthology, part of IFEX-TMG's ongoing project, brings together journalistic articles, commentaries, prose and verse in Arabic written both during the Ben Ali regime and since its fall, and is illustrated with images of the revolution.
4 April 2012
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 real danger that free speech on the Internet may be stifled again as long as they are still on the statute book.See all reports: Tunisia
Alerts
Judicial confusion puts press freedom in peril 14 May 2012 Clashes erupt outside national TV station after talk of privatizing state media 26 April 2012 Police attack journalists covering protest 11 April 2012 Seven-year prison terms handed down for mockery of Islam 9 April 2012 Al Jazeera journalist expelled from meeting, attacked 27 March 2012 Journalists attacked by police while filming union protest 1 March 2012 Newspaper director released pending trial 23 February 2012 New authorities use old methods to detain newspaper publisher 17 February 2012 Court urged to drop prison sentence given to journalist 7 February 2012 Rapper arrested, detained, for lyrics critical of outcome of revolution 6 February 2012 Director charged for broadcasting "Persepolis"; journalists assaulted 26 January 2012 Media independence crucial to democratic transition, says ARTICLE 19 11 January 2012 Fundamentalists disrupting college campuses 13 December 2011 Authorities shut down TV station, extremists try to burn down another 12 October 2011 ANHRI condemns use of violence against peaceful protesters 17 August 2011 Court upholds order requiring filtering of porn sites 16 August 2011 Police attack journalists during Tunis demonstrations 21 July 2011 New decree on access to information rolls back culture of secrecy 12 July 2011 Police inaction allowed assault on film screening, says Human Rights Watch 4 July 2011 Call for release of would-be whistle-blower police officer 9 June 2011 Draft election decree must protect freedom of expression, cautions ARTICLE 19 18 May 2011 Journalists beaten by police in central Tunis 9 May 2011 See all alerts: Tunisia
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