The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by your government’s attempt to censor coverage of recent protests against unemployment and corruption in Tunisia. We are specifically alarmed by the confiscation of two opposition weeklies, the government’s denunciation of Al-Jazeera, the systematic obstruction of reporting and broadcasting […]
New York, December 10, 2010– The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns harassment of the Lebanese news website Al-Akhbar after it […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the health of imprisoned Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous. We call upon […]
As Tunisia’s October presidential and parliamentary elections draw closer, the Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to you for the second time in four months to protest reprisals against critical journalists and their families. It is inconceivable that free and fair elections can take place in an environment in which independent media are harassed and silenced.
« Les bloggeurs sont à l’avant-garde de la révolution de l’Information et leur nombre est en pleine croissance » […] « Cependant, les gouvernements ont très vite appris à tourner la technologie contre les bloggeurs en appliquant la censure et le filtrage de l’Internet, la limitation de l’accès à la Toile et l’extraction de données personnelles. […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges you on the eve of the 53rd anniversary of Tunisia’s independence from France to end an ongoing cycle of repression of critical journalists and media outlets. We ask that you abide by the commitment you have made repeatedly since coming to power in 1987 to promote freedom of expression. The last time […]
We received a large package from the Tunisian Embassy in Washington on Friday. The package contained an official response to […]
La Tunisie aime se présenter comme une nation progressiste qui protège les droits de l’homme. Mais une enquête du CPJ montre qu’elle fait taire avec vigueur les journalistes et tout individu qui défie la politique du président Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Dans ce nouveau rapport, “L’Oppresseur souriant,” le CPJ observe que les journalistes sont couramment soumis aux emprisonnements, aux agressions, au harcèlement et à la censure.
Only a handful of Internet publications and small-circulation opposition papers have attempted to seriously criticize the government or hold it accountable. But journalists writing for these outlets have been placed under surveillance, assaulted by plainclothes police, had their phone and Internet lines cut, and been prevented from leaving the country.
Le Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ) a appelé, mercredi, au terme d’une mission d’enquête de dix jours en Tunisie sur le modèle tunisien en matière d’asphyxie de la presse indépendante, par voie de harcèlement, intimidation et emprisonnement, à la libération immédiate du journaliste Slim Boukhdhir. […]