In Tunisia, press freedom erodes amid security fears - Committee to Prot... 11 of 21 https://cpj.org/reports/2015/10/in-tunisia-press-freedom-erodes-amid-sec... ● A protester yells during a rally calling for greater transparency over Tunisia’s oil. Several journalists say they were assaulted by police during the protests. (Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi) Local journalists say law enforcement has failed to investigate or hold members of security forces publicly accountable for such attacks. The Tunis Center for Press Freedom documented 277 cases of assault against journalists in 2014, none of which have been prosecuted, despite many of them having witness testimony and medical reports. Another spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Walid Loukani, told CPJ that the ministry has investigated reports of assaults against journalists by security forces and that “punitive measures” have been taken. He declined to comment further. However, Bghouri, the head of the journalists’ union, told CPJ that punishments of those guilty of such offenses are not made public for fear of problems with unions of security forces employees. Loukani told CPJ that the Interior Ministry has begun a safety training project for journalists and security forces in cooperation with the National Union of Tunisian Journalists. The project is aimed at training journalists in safety measures to be taken during protests, and for teaching police how to deal with protesters and journalists in a nonviolent way. The �rst joint training session between journalists and security forces took place on June 5. come not just from security 1/27/2025, 12:23 PM