Tunisia

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 May 1999 CPJ press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 May, 20 May, 14 May, 28 April, 29 January and 13 January 1999 and 24 June 1998** For Immediate Release CPJ Alarmed by Arrest of Tunisian Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik New York, N.Y., May 24, 1999-The Committee to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is outraged over the 20 May 1999 assault on journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, a freelance reporter working for a number of European newspapers, including the Paris-based daily “La Croix”. **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 May, 14 May, 28 April, 29 January and 13 January 1999 and 24 June 1998** CPJ has learned […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 14 May, 28 April, 29 January and 13 January 1999 and 24 June 1998** Thursday, 20 May 1999: for immediate release Press release – Tunisia Journalist subject to systematic harrasment by Tunisian authorities Reporters sans frontières is vigorously denouncing the intimidation campaign […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ briefing on Tunisia: May 1999 TUNISIA: A DECADE OF STIFLING THE PRESS A CPJ BRIEFING On May 3, 1999, World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists, for the second consecutive year, named Tunisian President Zine Abdine Ben Ali as one of the world’s top 10 Enemies […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the administrative harassment which journalist Taoufik Ben Brick, a correspondent of the French daily “La Croix” and the Tunis-based French press agency SYFIA, has been subjected to. On 28 April 1999, just as he was on his way to Switzerland to attend a conference, the journalist had his passport confiscated […]

(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF’s information, journalist Taoufik Ben Brick, a correspondent with the French press agency “SYFIA” in Tunis, was once again the victim of intimidation tactics and telephone threats. While on his way home on Thursday, 28 January 1999 at around 5:00 p.m. (local time), he found a van parked in front of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is concerned by the recent harassment of journalist Taoufik Ben Brick, a correspondent with the French press agency “SYFIA” in Tunis. **Updates IFEX alert of 24 June 1998** According to RSF’s information, Taoufik Ben Brick’s telephone line has been cut since 28 December 1998, for no apparent technical or administrative reason. Moreover, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 18 June 1998, Taoufik Ben Brik, a correspondent for the Paris-based daily “La Croix -L’Evenement”, was summoned to the Ministry of Interior headquarters in Tunis by two plain clothes police officers and brought before Mohammad Ali Ganzoui, assistant to the Minister of Interior, “La Croix” reported. During their encounter, Ganzoui accused Ben […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – On 5 February 1998, Khemais Ksila, vice-President of the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), will be tried on criminal charges because he announced that he would go on hunger strike after the Tunisian authorities had him dismissed from his job and confiscated his passport. Mr Ksila was arrested on 29 September 1997 […]

Tunisian authorities have refused to renew the passport of journalist Salah Bechir, an editorial writer with the Arab- language, London-based daily “Al-Hayat”. On 2 April 1996, Bechir went to the Tunisian Embassy in Paris to ask for a renewal of his passport. However, on 10 May, his request was turned down, with one Embassy official […]

**Updates IFEX alerts dated 1 and 24 February 1995** Mohammed Kilani, editor-in-chief of “Al Badil”, remains in detention. He was sentenced on 22 February 1995 to two years in prison for “supporting an unauthorized association,” and holding “unauthorized meetings” (see IFEX alerts). On 27 April, in a second trial, he was sentenced to five years […]

Journalist Jaouhari Sahnoun died in a Tunis hospital on 25 January. He worked for “al-Fajr”, the pro-al-Nahda newspaper, and was a former member of the board of directors of the Tunisian League of Human Rights. Sahnoun had been arrested on 23 March 1991 and was sentenced in the mass al-Nahda military trials of 1992 to […]