WSIS: Rights Activists, Belgian TV Crew Attacked in Tunis
Via Reporters sans Frontières.
Reporters Without Borders today said it was “appalled” by yesterday’s attack by plain-clothes police on a Belgian TV crew as it was accompanying lawyer and human rights activist Radhia Nasraoui to a meeting of non-governmental organisations at the German “Goethe Institute” cultural centre in Tunis.
“This new act of intimidation proves that a campaign is being deliberately organised against the foreign media and Tunisian human rights activists on the eve of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis,” the press freedom organisation said. “Once again the Tunisian authorities have not hesitated to use violence against journalists.”
Reporter Marianne Klaric and cameraman Jean-Jaques Mathy of the Belgian TV station RTBF were driving with Nasraoui to the NGO meeting when their car was surrounded by about 40 plain-clothes policemen. Mathy was forcibly pulled from the car and his video camera and cassette were seized. The camera was subsequently returned but not the videotape. Klaric and Nasraooui meanwhile eluded their assailants by locking themselves inside the car.
This was the second attack on foreign journalists in three days. Visiting correspondent Christophe Boltanski of the French daily Libération was beaten and stabbed near his hotel in the Tunis embassy district on the evening of 11 November.
posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2005 05:25:00 PM
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