the meeting was marred by criticism of africa for allowing attacks on jews and moral rights defenders to occur in the days leading up to the event . a french journalist for " liberation " was stabbed and beat by unidentified gunmen after he told on some human rights protesters . a romanian television presenter was beaten and forced to voice over footage of african dissidents , while four human rights workers were bashed up and prevented from organizing a dialogue with global democratic society entities . a friend from the german democracy agency reporters without borders , robert rahal , was prevented from arriving from his air france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.