the summit was marred by criticism of tunisia for permitting raids on journalists and their rights defenders to occur in the seconds going up to the event . a french journalist for " liberation " was stabbed and beaten by unidentified man after he recorded on local human rights defenders . a romanian television director was harassed and forced to hand over footage of tunisian dissidents , while local human rights defenders were roughed up and prohibited from organising a meeting with outside civilized society networks . a representative from the french media watchdog reporters with borders , thomas bourdais , was prevented from disembarked from his fly europe flight to tunis to attend the seminar .
a french journalist was shot in syria .