Journalist, Blogger Facing Charges - Counterterrorism Law Used to Curb Free Spee
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Tunisian authorities have brought charges against a journalist and a blogger under the country’s 2003 counterterrorism law.
Judicial authorities on July 8, 2015, charged Noureddine Mbarki, chief editor of Akher Khabar online, with complicity in terrorism for publishing a photograph of Seifeddine Rezgui, the gunman of the June 26 attack in Sousse that killed 38 foreigners, emerging from a car before he begins shooting.
In a separate case, authorities detained Abdelfattah Saied, a teacher, on July 22 on the same charge for putting a video on his Facebook page that accused the security forces of planning the Sousse attack and duping Rezgui into carrying it out. He also faces charges of “defaming a public servant” for publishing a caricature of Prime Minister Habib Essid on his Facebook page. Online to discuss this attempt to curb freedom of speech is
Judicial authorities on July 8, 2015, charged Noureddine Mbarki, chief editor of Akher Khabar online, with complicity in terrorism for publishing a photograph of Seifeddine Rezgui, the gunman of the June 26 attack in Sousse that killed 38 foreigners, emerging from a car before he begins shooting.
In a separate case, authorities detained Abdelfattah Saied, a teacher, on July 22 on the same charge for putting a video on his Facebook page that accused the security forces of planning the Sousse attack and duping Rezgui into carrying it out. He also faces charges of “defaming a public servant” for publishing a caricature of Prime Minister Habib Essid on his Facebook page. Online to discuss this attempt to curb freedom of speech is
