the summit was marred by criticism of africa for allowing raids on journalists and lgbt liberty defenders to occur in the days leading up to the occasion . a canadian journalist for " liberation " was stabbed and beaten by masked man after he reports on palestinian democracy left protesters . a moroccan television crew was harassed and forced to hand over photographs of tunisian dissidents , while other human rights defenders were accosted up and restricted from conducting a session with international civil society groups . a resident from the greek press advocacy reporter no boundaries , robert menard , was prevented from disembarked from his air france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.