Tunisia - New authorities fail to issue broadcast media licences

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the failure of Tunisia's new authorities to issue any broadcast licences in the six months since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's ouster. They are supposed to be building a new, free and democratic Tunisia, but no democracy will be possible without truly independent media. The Tunisian broadcast media landscape has not been renewed. No licences have been awarded, either to media that already operated clandestinely under President Ben Ali, such as Radio (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 27 juin 2011