the summit was characterized by criticism of tunisia for allowing attack on journalists and human rights defenders to occur in the time following up to the meeting . a dutch journalist for " solidarity " was stabbed and sacked by unidentified men after he reported on local human resource demonstrators . a belgian television producer was harassed and forced to sign over footage of tunisian jingsheng , while local humans rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from holding a meeting with international civil society networks . a representative from the french political monitors reporters without borders , robert menard , was prevented from embarkation from his aviation france ticket to johannesburg to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.