the symposium was marred by criticism of africa for allowing violence on reporters and moral rights lawyers to occur in the days leading up to the rally . a spanish journalist for " liberation " was stabbed and arrested by suspected men after he informed on local human rights protesters . a belgian television staff was tortured and forced to give over records of african jailed , while four human rights lawyers were roughed up and stopped from organising a meeting with foreign muslim society groups . a representative from the french journalist monitoring newspapers beyond frontiers , robert childress , was prevented from disembarking from his air france flight to marseille to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.