April 2

• Africa: RWB Workshop On Digital Security for News Providers On 29 March At WSF [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO that defends freedom of information, will organize a workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March as part of the... Read more »

March 7

• Tunisia: Death Threats and Attacks On Freedom of Expression Intensify

  The following is an open letter to the authorities in Tunisia, initiated by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Norwegian PEN, PEN International... Read more »

February 26

• Tunisia: New Radio Stations Threatened With Closure or Prosecution [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the increasingly uncertain future of the radio stations that emerged in the aftermath of Tunisia's January 2011 revolution. Read more »

February 7

• Tunisia: Opposition Politician Who Defended Freedom of Information [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the fatal shooting of Chokri Belaïd, the general secretary of the United Democratic Patriots Party, today in Tunis. Read more »

January 18

• Tunisia: Blogger's Allegations Against Foreign Minister Land Her in Court [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is closely following an investigation by the public prosecutor's office into blogger Olfa Riahi's claims that foreign minister Rafik Abdessalem misused... Read more »

January 11

• Tunisia: RWB Secretary-General Discusses New Media Law With Tunisian President [press release]

  Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, held talks at Carthage Palace yesterday with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on the country's new press law. Read more »

December 5, 2012

• Tunisia: Reporters Without Borders, a Partner in the Open Media Summit Organized By Deutsche Welle

  Reporters Without Borders is a partner in the online Open Media Summit organized by Deutsche Welle as part of anti-censorship week from 3 to 9 December in Tunis. Read more »

August 31, 2012

• Tunisia: State Media Appointments Discussed At Meeting With Government

  Reporters Without Borders had a meeting at the prime minister's office in the Kasbah with government spokesman Ridha Kazdaghli, and Jamel Tahar and Nejmeddine Hamrouni, political... Read more »

August 28, 2012

• Tunisia: Over-Eager Court Violates Procedure to Order TV Chief's Detention [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the procedural violations that occurred when a Tunis criminal court last week ordered the detention of Sami Fehri, the head of the new... Read more »

July 4, 2012

• Tunisia: State Media Independence Threatened By Non-Transparent Appointments

  Reporters Without Borders condemns the lack of provision for consultation before public broadcasting bosses are appointed and dismissed in Tunisia, where the dismissal of... Read more »

June 27, 2012

• Tunisia: Amid Violence and Fundamentalist Pressure, Hopes Fade for New Media Laws

  Although promulgated more than six months ago, decree-law 115-2011 on the print media and decree-law 116-2012 on the broadcast media are still not being implemented despite... Read more »

May 29, 2012

• Tunisia: Premises of Privately-Owned TV Station Ransacked

  Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the ransacking of privately-owned TV station El Hiwar Ettounsi in the northwestern Tunis suburb of Manouba on the night of 26 May. Read more »

May 11, 2012

• Tunisia: Judicial Confusion in Tunisia Puts Press Freedom in Peril

  Reporters Without Borders calls on the Tunisian authorities to respond to the current lack of judicial clarity, which presents a serious danger to freedom of the press and freedom... Read more »

May 10, 2012

• Tunisia: Judicial Confusion Puts Press Freedom in Peril

  Reporters Without Borders calls on the Tunisian authorities to respond to the current lack of judicial clarity, which presents a serious danger to freedom of the press and freedom... Read more »

April 26, 2012

• Tunisia: Violent Clashes Outside National TV Station After Talk of Privatizing State Media

  Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the violent clashes that took place outside the Tunis headquarters of the state-owned Télévision Nationale... Read more »

April 11, 2012

• Tunisia: Open Letter From Reporters Without Borders to the Authorities [document]

  A day after the harsh crackdown on a demonstration marking Martyrs' Day 0n 9 April, Reporters Without Borders wrote to the Tunisian authorities to express its indignation. Read more »

March 1, 2012

• Tunisia: Police Attack Journalists at Protest

  Reporters Without Borders condemns the many direct physical attacks by police on journalists that took place when the media were filming their use of violence and tear-gas to... Read more »

February 24, 2012

• Tunisia: Conditional Release for Publisher Amid Continuing Tension

  Tunis judge Faouzi Jebali yesterday granted Nasreddine Ben Saida, the publisher of the daily Attounissia, a provisional release and postponed his trial until 8 March. Ben Saida,... Read more »

February 20, 2012

• Tunisia: New Authorities Use Old Methods to Detain Newspaper Publisher

  Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Nasreddine Ben Saida, the publisher of the Arabic-language daily Attounissia, and the withdrawal of all charges against... Read more »

February 3, 2012

• Tunisia: Internet Filtering - Danger of Return to Past [document]

  The January 2011 revolution in Tunisia brought an end to Internet filtering and control of online content but old habits seem to be resurfacing and Reporters Without Borders urges... Read more »

January 13, 2012

• Tunisia: Open Letter From Reporters Without Borders to the Authorities [document]

  On the first anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, Reporters Without Borders has written to the new Tunisian authorities expressing its concerns. Read more »

January 11, 2012

• Tunisia: Protests at Appointment of New Media Bosses

  More than 300 journalists and civil society members demonstrated yesterday outside the government headquarters in the Tunis Casbah to condemn police violence and call for the... Read more »

January 6, 2012

• Tunisia: Two Female Journalists Covering Protest Assaulted By Police

  Two female journalists, Sana Farhat of the French-language daily Le Temps and Maha Ouelhezi who works for the news website Web Manager Center, were assaulted by law enforcement... Read more »

October 13, 2011

• Tunisia: After Broadcasting Persepolis, TV Station Attacked, Owner and Staff Threatened

  Reporters Without Borders condemns an angry crowd's attempt to storm Nessma TV's Tunis headquarters and subsequent threats against the head of the station and its staff. The... Read more »

October 12, 2011

• Tunisia: Reporters Without Borders Opens Bureau in Tunis

  Reporters Without Borders will open a bureau in Tunis today. Its staff will have the job of raising media freedom violations with the Tunisian authorities and helping to build and... Read more »