Taoufik Ben Brik

In May, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali won 99.52 percent approval for constitutional changes that allow him to run for a fourth term in 2004. The poll--condemned by human rights groups inside and outside the country as rigged--did not surprise...

Throughout his 15 years in power, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has sought to stifle all dissent while portraying Tunisia as a progressive and democratic nation. Sadly, he has had considerable success. Members of the U.S. Congress, for example, continued...

New York, May 22, 2001 --- CPJ today called on the Tunisian government to bring to justice the perpetrators of last year's assassination attempt against Tunisian journalist Riad Ben Fadhel, who was wounded in a drive-by shooting outside his home...

ALTHOUGH RIGHTS TO FREE EXPRESSION AND PRESS FREEDOM are enshrined in national constitutions from Algeria to Yemen, governments found many practical ways to restrict these freedoms. State ownership of the media, censorship, legal harassment, intimidation, and imprisonment of journalists were...

LATE IN THE YEAR, A SURGE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE FURTHER DIMMED the prospects of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika's plan for national reconciliation and an end to Algeria's nine years of civil strife. Particularly in Algiers and other cities, however, the...

PRESIDENT ZINE AL-ABIDINE BEN ALI CONTINUED TO DENY BASIC LIBERTIES, including press freedom, even as his government's shameful human-rights record came under increased international scrutiny. For the third year in a row, CPJ named Ben Ali to its annual list...

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in TUNISIA New York, May 26, 2000--The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today condemned Tuesday's assassination attempt against Tunisian journalist Riad Ben Fadhel, which occurred only days after the journalist...

New York, May 16, 2000 ---Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who went 43 days without food to protest government harassment, ended his hunger strike yesterday in Paris, where he has been staying since leaving Tunisia on May 4. Ben...

New York, April 5, 2000--In a joint letter sent today to Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) strongly protested the Tunisian authorities' continued harassment of journalist Taoufik Ben Brik,...

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in TUNISIA. New York, May 5, 2000 --- Tunisian authorities lifted a travel ban imposed on journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who arrived in France yesterday. But Ben Brik vowed to...