(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdallah Kaabi, RSF protested the ban on the October 2001 issue of “Le Monde Diplomatique”. “The Tunisian governement systematically bans foreign newspapers when they contain articles that displease it,” said Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general. “We ask for an explanation on this censorship measure,” he […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdallah Kaabi, RSF protested the ban on the October 2001 issue of “Le Monde Diplomatique”. “The Tunisian governement systematically bans foreign newspapers when they contain articles that displease it,” said Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general. “We ask for an explanation on this censorship measure,” he added.
According to information collected by RSF, the October issue of the French monthly “Le Monde Diplomatique” was banned in Tunisia. It included an article by Kamel Jendoubi, president of the Committee for the Promotion of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT). In the article, titled “Can Fear Change Sides? Sprint in Tunisia,” he focused mainly on “the governement’s authoritarian abuses.”
Numerous foreign publications remain banned in Tunisia, including the French press titles “Libération”, “Charlie Hebdo”, “La Croix”, “Le Canard enchaîné” and “L’Humanité”, privately-owned Algerian press titles and certain privately-owned Morroccan newspapers. Moreover, authorised newspapers such as “Le Monde”, “Jeune Afrique-L’Intelligent” and “Courrier International” are censored when they contain articles that are critical of Tunisia.
