Tunisia - Journalists beaten by police in central Tunis

Reporters without borders

Reporter Abdelfattah Belaid was brutally attacked in Tunis today by police officers who pursued him into the headquarters of his newspaper, the French-language daily La Presse, after spotting him taking pictures of them dispersing protesters in the street outside. He was the second journalist to be beaten by police in Tunis in the past 24 hours. “The police violence against journalists in the past two days is like a bad memory,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François (...)

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