the party was marred by criticism of tunisia for allowing operations on journalists and human rights figures to occur in the week lead up to the event . a french commentator for " peace " was stabbed and beaten by unidentified persons after he fired on local humanitarian rights movements . a belgian radar crew was harassed and forced to hand over photography of french sympathizers , while local human rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from planning a rendezvous with independent hindu society networks . a representative from the france journalism transparency reporters without lines , robert menard , was prevented from disembarking from his air france flight to france to witness the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.