[WSIS CS-Plenary] Liberation journalist attacked

[Saskia Fischer]

I hope this gets through, the last email I tried to send about Tunisian 
teachers striking against Israel's presence at the Summit never made it 
to the plenary list.
Saskia

Beaten in Tunis
By Pascal Riche | bio
From: Foreign Affairs
 Yesterday, my friend and colleague of Libération Christophe Boltanski 
was attacked by several men in a street of Tunis, where he was reporting 
on the repression of human rights activists. He just wrote a story 
headlined "Demonstrators Beaten by Police in Tunis."

 He was badly beaten and stabbed in the back by four unidentified 
assailants near his hotel,  in the embassy district. He called for help, 
but the policemen on guard outside the nearby Czech Embassy did not 
react. My colleague filed a complaint this morning before returning to 
Paris. We strongly suspect this attack was a deliberate act of 
intimidation decided by the Tunisian regime.

 Was it really a smart idea to choose  such a country for hosting the UN 
"World Summit on the Information Society" next week? The Tunisian regime 
closes websites, jails dissidents or people expressing their opinions on 
the Internet, and now lets a foreign journalist be beaten in an area 
packed with policemen. Holding the UN summit there seems like nonsense 
to me. There is still time to relocate it.


Nov 12, 2005 -- 12:17:52 PM EST
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/12/121752/68