the summit was marred by criticism of tunis for allow attacks on journalists and human liberty workers to occur in the days leading up to the crisis . a french journalist for " solidarity " was stabbed and beaten by identified men after he reported on local humanitarian status protesters . a belgian news crew was violated and unable to handed over records of tunisian dissidents , while french human rights activists were roughed up and delayed from organising a conversation with international civil society activists . a defender from the tunisian journalists watchdog newspapers without limits , pierre menard , was suspended from disembarking from his air france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.