the forum was halted by criticism of tunisia for allowing harassment on journalists and human wrong defenders to occur in the period leading up to the event . a canadian journalists for " liberation " was stabbed and arrested by unidentified men after he reported on algerian human rights protesters . a belgian camera crew was harassed and forced to hand over footage of tunisian dissidents , while palestinian animal rights residents were roughed up and prevented from organising a meeting with international civil liberties groups . a representative from the spanish media watchdog reporter without borders , jacques menard , was prevented from disembarking from his northern france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.