Tunisia - Another human rights activist beaten by police, while journalist waits to be freed

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the severe beating that human rights activist and online journalist Zouhaïer Makhlouf received from police officers who arrested him at his home on 24 April. His arrest seems to have been partly motivated by a desire to prevent him meeting a prominent French lawyer on a visit to Tunisia. Another independent journalist, Taoufik Ben Brik, is meanwhile about to be released on completing a six-month jail sentence. “We are deeply shocked to learn that a (...)

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