5 December 2011

Report

IFEX-TMG UPR Submission to 13th Session


International Freedom of Expression Exchange Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG)
Contribution to the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
13th Session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) (21st May - 1st June 2012):

A Joint UPR Submission on Tunisia by the following members of the IFEX-TMG: ARTICLE 19, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Cartoonists Rights Network International, Index on Censorship, International Publishers Association (IPA), Norwegian PEN, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International

Click here to download the full submission:
IFEX-TMG Contribution on Tunisia to the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism, 13th Session (21st May - 1st June 2012).
TunisiaUPRsubmissionfor13thsessionbyIFEXTMGmembers18Nov2011FINAL.pdf (463 KB)


Tunisia

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 See all alerts: Tunisia


North Africa

EGYPT: Police shutter Al-Alam's Cairo office 16 May 2012 MOROCCO: Rapper sentenced to one year in prison for criticising police 14 May 2012 ALGERIA: Crackdown on protest as election nears 9 May 2012 EGYPT: Two journalists report being brutalised in custody 8 May 2012


 
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