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African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights2009-06-30
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
IFJ backs red-armband campaign after Tunisian journalists attacked2012-04-12
International Federation of Journalists
The IFJ has strongly condemned the Tunisian government following the physical assault of at least 14 journalists in two separate incidents this week.
IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in Tunisia2009-10-16
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for indepen...
The IFJ supports its affiliate in Tunisia in its search for the two Tunisian journalists missing in Libya2015-01-14
International Federation of Journalists
The IIFJ has declared its full support to the National Trade Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in its efforts to investigate t...
Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content2009-11-06
Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ...
Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper2009-05-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned ...
Reporters Without Borders opens bureau in Tunis2011-10-14
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders opened a bureau in Tunis on 12th October. Its staff will have the job of raising media freedom violations with the Tunisian authorities and helping to build and develop stabl...
Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks2010-07-28
Reporters without Borders
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region o...
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African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rightsSources News Release
Article
2009
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campusA dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
Brulliard, Karin
Article
2012
The Guardian
A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
Connexions Library: Middle East FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror Abrougui, Afef
Article
2015
Global Voices
The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in TunisiaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for indepen...
The IFJ supports its affiliate in Tunisia in its search for the two Tunisian journalists missing in LibyaSources News Release
Article
2015
International Federation of Journalists
The IIFJ has declared its full support to the National Trade Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in its efforts to investigate t...
Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor contentSources News Release
Article
2009
Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ...
Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaperSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned ...
Tunisia charges editor with complicity in terrorist attackCommittee to Protect Journalists
Article
2015
Committee to Protect Journalist
Tunisian authorities should drop charges against an editor accused of complicity in the June 27 terrorist attack on Sousse beach that killed at least 39 people.
Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacksSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region o...
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