Index on Censorship » Attounissia http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Attounissia http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Tunisia: Newspaper executive Nasreddine Ben Saida released http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/tunisia-nasreddine-ben-saida-attounissia/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/tunisia-nasreddine-ben-saida-attounissia/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:47:16 +0000 Afef Abrougui http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=33238 A Tunisian court today released Nasreddine Ben Saida, general director of the Arabic-language daily Attounissia, who was arrested on 15 February after his newspaper published a photo German-Tunisian footballer Sami Khedira with his naked girlfriend. Rim Boukriba, a journalist for Attounisia, expressed her discontent about the arrest. “He was treated like a criminal … did he [...]

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]]> published a photo German-Tunisian footballer Sami Khedira with his naked girlfriend. Rim Boukriba, a journalist for Attounisia, expressed her discontent about the arrest. “He was treated like a criminal … did he kill someone? Is he too dangerous to stay at large?” she said. “The authorities who jailed Ben Saida are seeking to silence us … their problem is not with the picture itself … but with the newspaper, which is popular, and widely read”, she told Index. “The picture is only an excuse,” she added. The court is expected to issue a verdict on the case on 8 March.  

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/tunisia-nasreddine-ben-saida-attounissia/feed/ 1 Tunisia: Journalists arrested in morality dispute http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/tunisia-journalists-arrested-in-morality-dispute/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/tunisia-journalists-arrested-in-morality-dispute/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:00:45 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=33058 Three Tunisian journalists have been arrested on charges of offending public morality following the publication of a nude photograph. The Attounissia newspaper printed a photograph of Real-Madrid footballer Sami Khedira covering the breasts of his otherwise naked girlfriend, model Lena Gercke. The photograph drew an angry response from the country’s public prosecutor, resulting in the arrest of the [...]

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]]> Tunisian journalists have been arrested on charges of offending public morality following the publication of a nude photograph. The Attounissia newspaper printed a photograph of Real-Madrid footballer Sami Khedira covering the breasts of his otherwise naked girlfriend, model Lena Gercke. The photograph drew an angry response from the country’s public prosecutor, resulting in the arrest of the newspaper’s publisher Nasreddine Ben Said, Habib Guizani, its editor-in- chief, and its world editor Hedi Hidhri. The photo was a reprint of a 2012 cover of the German edition of GQ Magazine.  

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