IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group
Campaigns and Advocacy
25 May 2012
Joint action - Tunisia
IFEX-TMG calls for seven-year sentences to be overturned
Ahead of a court of appeal hearing on 28 May, IFEX-TMG urges judiciary to quash the seven-year prison terms handed down to Ghazi Ben Mohamed Beji and Jaber Ben Abdallah Majri for online publishing.
3 May 2012
Tunisia
IFEX-TMG launches new initiatives on World Press Freedom Day
The new work includes a literary anthology edited by the president of PEN Tunisia Naziha Rejiba, a training manual on online advocacy, a workshop for cartoonists, and a national newspaper and billboard campaign championing free expression rights as Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly continues to negotiate a new national constitution.
3 May 2012
Tunisia
Workshops on "Internet serving freedom of expression" conclude ahead of World Press Freedom Day
The workshop included theoretical, technical, and practical training on blogging, social networks, photography, and filming in support of freedom of expression.
From the Communiqué
11 April 2012
Tunisia
New authorities, old-style crackdown
Security forces marked Martyr's Day on 9 April in Tunisia by dispersing thousands of protesters - including more than a dozen journalists - with tear gas and truncheons. It is just the latest sign that despite Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali being the first dictator to fall in the Arab uprisings, old-style free expression violations continue, reports the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members.
21 December 2011
Tunisia
Free expression landscape in state of malaise post-Ben Ali, says IFEX-TMG
Almost a year after the overthrow of President Ben Ali, the free expression field is in a state of "malaise" due to decades of censorship and repression, said members of the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG). Meeting in Tunis last week to discuss the free expression landscape in the new Tunisia, IFEX-TMG members came up with a slew of recommendations that could help the country move forward.
CASE STUDY – The IFEX-Tunisia Monitoring Group
IFEX's advocacy work in Tunisia has been the most successful and most sustained campaigning project undertaken by IFEX members in collaboration - largely due to the longevity of IFEX's Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG) - which is now made up of 21 IFEX members who have been working together since 2004 to bring attention to the free expression situation in the country. Read more about how IFEX-TMG works and what has made it a success story (2009).
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Alerts
Judicial confusion puts press freedom in peril Some articles of the criminal code are being used unlawfully to convict journalists and bloggers, yet these are obsolete under the new press code, law 115, says RSF.14 May 2012
Clashes erupt outside national TV station after talk of privatizing state media Tension had been fuelled by recent talk of “privatization of the public media” by Ennahda Movement leader Rached Ghannouchi and Ennahda political bureau member Ameur Laarayedh.
26 April 2012
Police attack journalists covering protest The crackdown on protesters and journalists marked the worst violence seen in the country since the fall of Ben Ali's regime in January 2011.
11 April 2012
IFEX-TMG Mission Reports
Scars of oppression run deep in the country's media
IFEX-TMG report calls for free and independent media and a strong, democratic and open civil society.
16 June 2011 Obstructions to an independent judiciary hamper human rights, says IFEX-TMG Following a recent mission, members of the TMG concluded in their new report that Tunisia needs a truly independent judiciary to reverse its worsening record on human rights and treatment of prisoners of opinion.
7 June 2010 Freedom of Expression in Tunisia: The Siege Holds
1 April 2007
Deception and Lies: Freedom of Expression in Tunisia Remains under Siege Six Months After the WSIS
1 May 2006
Freedom of Expression in Tunisia: The Siege Intensifies
1 September 2005
Tunisia: Freedom of Expression under Siege
1 February 2005
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