the symposium was marred by criticism of morocco for allowing attacks on journalists and civilian resources defenders to occur in the years prior up to the convention . a french reporter for " liberation " was stabbed and beaten by unidentified forces after he reported on local human rights protesters . a flemish television crew was violated and had to hand over footage of tunis jailed , while tunisian human rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from organising a meeting with french mixed society groups . a representatives from the spanish media atomic reporters without limits , robert cheever , was prevented from arriving from his airlines france flight to tunisia to attend the congress .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.