5/10/2017 Tunisia: Spate of Prosecutions for Free Speech | Human Rights Watch Tunis Tribunal. Al-Jiss told Human Rights Watch that Help us continue to ght human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work » the complaint was filed in the name of President Moncef Marzouki and referred to a radio program that al-Jiss had moderated on March 9. He told Human Rights Watch:   × In the course of this radio program, I interviewed by telephone Salem Zahran, a Lebanese journalist, who alleged that the Tunisian president of the republic received 50,000 Euros from Al Jazeera. I told Zahran that these allegations are very serious and that he should have evidence of this before making them. He replied that he does have proof of these allegations and that he is ready to provide them before the judiciary if the presidency of the republic files a complaint against him.   Like Zarrouk, al-Jiss was charged with violating penal code articles 128, 245, and press code article 54, together with Zahran and the director of Express FM. Al-Heni received a summons to appear as an accused before the investigative judge of the 10th Bureau of the Tunis Tribunal. The summons was based on al-Heni’s criticism of the authorities in the case of Mourad Mehrezi, a cameraman who was arrested after filming an incident in which a protester threw an egg at the culture minister.The public prosecutor charged Mehrezi on August 23, on charges including conspiracy to assault a public servant and harming public morals. Al-Heni told Human Rights Watch:   During an interview on Nessma TV on August 28, I referred to the press release issued by the public prosecution office the day they decided to issue a detention order against Mehrezi, in which they say https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/13/tunisia-spate-prosecutions-free-speech 3/9