(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, RSF protested the confiscation of Taoufik Ben Brik’s documents at Tunis-Carthage airport. Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general, asked the president “to order the return of the documents to the journalist.” “This act demonstrates, once again, that the Tunisian authorities wish, by any means, […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, RSF protested the confiscation of Taoufik Ben Brik’s documents at Tunis-Carthage airport. Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general, asked the president “to order the return of the documents to the journalist.” “This act demonstrates, once again, that the Tunisian authorities wish, by any means, to stop him from freely practising his profession,” Ménard added. In November 2000, books belonging to Ben Brik were confiscated at Tunis-Carthage airport.
According to information collected by RSF, on 27 October 2001, border police services at Tunis-Carthage airport confiscated a manuscript in Arabic, six floppy disks, an audio tape and a laptop from Ben Brik. He was on his way to Paris in order to promote his new book “Chronicle of an informer”. The police officers used the word “verification” in order to justify the seizure.
