Tunisia - Authorities urged to rescind decree creating communications surveillance agency

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the government to rescind Decree No. 2013-4506 providing for “the creation of the Technical Agency for Telecommunications (ATT) and determining its administrative and financial organization and methods of functioning.” The decree's publication in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic on 12 November was followed by a Ministry of Information and Communications Technology statement eight days later announcing the ATT's creation. Reporters Without (...)

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