the meet was marred by criticisms of tunisia for allows attacks on journalists and moral rights defenders to occur in the nights following up to the events . a canadian journalist for " liberation " was tortured and burnt by two men after he reported on local human rights protesters . a belgian television anchor was harassed and unable to hand over photos of tunisian dissidents , while local human rights defenders were roughed up and restrained from organising a meeting with foreign human society groups . a representative from the french media atomic media without borders , bernard menard , was restricted from disembarking from his airport japan flight to tunis to observer the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.