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10/10/06: Culture Ministry's review board censors new play. "Corps-otages" (Khamsoun), a new play by Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaibi, is censored in Tunisia: The Ministry of Culture's review board has announced the censorship of playwright Jalila Baccar's new work, "Corps-otages" ("Captive Bodies"), directed by Fadhel Jaibi. After wavering for more than three months, the review board, which is responsible for reviewing all theatrical releases in the country, refused to issue the permit required for the play to open. The board is demanding that Jaibi bring the play in line with a list of 100 themes subject to censorship before it grants the opening permit. more |
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18/02/06 - Upsurge of assaults on the freedom of the press: OLPEC is alerting the public about burgeoning acts of censorship that are striking the Tunisian and foreign press in Tunisia. Following the confiscation at news kiosks of three Tunisian periodicals at the end of last month, the following assaults took place: On February 7, the authorities banned the circulation of number 257 of the magazine "Al Maraa Al Youm", edited in Dubai. The cause for that censorship seems to have been an article by the weekly's editorialist, E. Mihoubi, in which he referred to the illness of the Tunisian president Ben Ali. more |
