the summit was halted by criticism of tunisia for allowing assaults on citizens and human rights defenders to begin in the days leading up to the summit . a canadian journalist for " liberation " was tortured and burnt by unidentified fighters after he commented on foreign human justice protesters . a belgian television crew was detained and made to hand over films of tunisian dissidents , while local humanity rights defenses were roughed up and prevented from organising a gathering with african criminal society organizations . a representative from the french media watchdog people without borders , robert menard , was prevented from embarkation from his air france flight to tunis to observer the gathering .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.