“No to violence against journalists”

10 May 2011 02:16 am

Tunisian Journalists hold up banners during a protest against violence against the media by police in front of the headquarters of the Tunisian newspaper La Presse de Tunisie in Tunis on May 9, 2011. A total of 15 reporters and photographers working for both the local and foreign media, male and female alike, were subject to beatings and insults and had their equipment seized on May 5 and May 6 in Tunis. The banners held read “No to violence against journalists” and “there is no revlution without freedom of the press”. AFP