Reporters Without Borders hails President Moncef Marzouki’s long-overdue announcement on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, of the composition of the nine-member Independent Broadcasting Authority (HAICA). Nouri Lejmi, a teacher at the Institute for Press and Information Sciences (IPSI), is to be its president. “We can only welcome this announcement, which has been awaited for the past year and a half,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “The installation of this (…) … Read More
Tunisian army clashes with armed jihadists
Tunisian troops clashed on Wednesday with around 50 armed jihadists in the remote Mount Chaambi border region, a security source said, the first such operation since the revolution in January 2011. “The group consists of more than 50 Salafi jihadists,” the source told AFP, adding that…
Jobless Tunisian man sets himself on fire at key revolutionary site
AFP – A young jobless man set himself ablaze and was seriously wounded on Sunday in front of the town hall of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, witnesses said. Brahim Slimani, 23, doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in front of the closed town hall, to…
Tunisia – RWB workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March at WSF
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO that defends freedom of information, will organize a workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March as part of the three-day 2013 World Social Forum that begun in Tunis on 26 March. The protection of journalists’ sources is no longer just a matter of professional ethics. Journalists need IT skills as well. What are the digital threats to which they are exposed and how can they fend them off? How can they (…) … Read More
Protestors call for resignation of official after she blames the family for a child’s rape in day care
Protesters on Monday demanded the resignation of Tunisia’s minister for women’s affairs, Sihem Badi, accusing her of defending a children’s nursery where a three-year-old girl was raped. The protesters, among them relatives of the victim, gathered outside the ministry in Tunis…
Thousands Support Tunisia’s Islamist Party In Rally, Democracy, Non-Violence Hailed
TUNIS, Tunisia — Thousands of supporters of the ruling Islamist party, waving banners and chanting, marched Saturday in the capital in response to rising criticism about Tunisia’s direction two years after its revolution.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has run afoul of his own governing party, Ennadha, by announcing he would seek to form a Cabinet of technocrats after leftist opposition politician Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home on Feb. 6 – setting off anti-government riots around the country. Saturday’s demonstration was a show of support for the party in the face of Jebali’s initiative.
Anger in Tunisia’s inland over Belaid’s murder
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