Tunisia: journalists detained and beaten
05 Mar 2008Sihem Bensedrine and her husband Omar Mestiri were seized by customs officials upon their arrival at la Goulette port on 3 March.
Awarded the 2008 peace prize by the Danish Peace Foundation, Bensedrine is president of the working group on press freedom in North Africa, while Mestiri is managing editor of the newspaper Kalima.
The two were detained for six hours and assaulted by police. Authorities also seized and copied the hard disks of their laptops without providing a docket for the confiscated property, as the law requires.
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