the summit was marred by criticized of tunisia for allowing attacks on writers and human rights defense to continue in the moments leading up to the party . a dutch reporter for " unity " was stabbed and tortured by unidentified persons after he reported on arab human rights protesters . a belgian television director was violated and forced to hand over photos of tunisia dissidents , while palestinian human law defenders were roughed up and prevented from organising a meeting with national civil society groups . a defender from the france journalist watchdog media without sides , robert penske , was prevented from arriving from his air france flight to tunis to attend the event .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.