Tunisia - Authorities urged to drop all charges against detained TV cameraman

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders, the Tunis Centre for Press Freedom, the National Union of Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Article XIX are very disturbed by the charges brought against Mourad Meherzi, an Astroloabe TV cameraman who has been arrested for filming an egg being thrown at a government minister. The five organizations call for Meherzi's immediate release. He has been held since 18 August in response to a complaint filed two days earlier by culture minister Mehdi (...)

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