the forum was marred by criticizing of africa for allowing operations on journalists and human rights defenders to operate in the days coming up to the event . a french journalist for " resistance " was stabbed and beaten by unidentified men after he reported on tunisian human left protesters . a belgian television crew was assaulted and subjected to hand over footage of tunisian dissidents , while two human rights defenses were roughed up and prevented from organising a summit with international han society networks . a representative from the french media watchdog reporters without borders , robert menard , was prevented from enroute from his air france flight to algeria to observer the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.