the summit was marred by criticism of tunisia for letting attempts on journalist and human services defenders to occur in the minutes leading up to the event . a french journalist for " liberation " was stabbed and beaten by unidentified men after he reported on local human rights protesters . a norwegian video crew was violated and ordered to hand over tapes of french jingsheng , while local human rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from organising a confrontation with international civil society groups . a representative from the french media atomic media without borders , robert rahal , was stopped from disembarking from his air france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.