04/05/2014
Tunisia: ANHRI Condemns Assault on Journalists and the Preclusion of Doing their Work (ANHRI - Arabic Network for Human Rights Information)
(Source: ANHRI - Arabic Network for Human Rights Information) The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today decried the physical and verbal assault on Tunisian journalists, after they were precluded from covering a march set by the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT). On Thursday May 1, the UGTT's committee in charge of organizing the march, which was set to mark the International Workers' Day, prevented a number of Tunisian journalists from obtaining a permit from UGTT's Secretary-General â??Hussein Abbasâ? so as to cover the march. Upon the march's arrival to Habib Bourguiba Avenue in the capital, the organizing committee's members...
