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Press Conference in Tunis at WSIS 2005

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On 14 November, Tunisian lawyer and human rights defender Radhia Nasraoui and two foreign journalists were threatened by plain clothes security offi...
On 14 November, Tunisian lawyer and human rights defender Radhia Nasraoui and two foreign journalists were threatened by plain clothes security officers. Then plain clothes police moved in to forcibly shut down a preparatory meeting for a Citizens´ Summit open to banned Tunisian civil society activists, planned to parallel WSIS activities. ;The private meeting was to have been held at the offices of the German- government-supported Goethe Foundation. Instead police sealed off the building and tried to forcibly prevent a German diplomat from entering the building. In front of a score of international journalists and officials, a news crew from Belgian RTBF TV was manhandled. Reporter Marianne Klaric was threatened and her tapes seized. Less
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