Tunisia: Newspaper Director Free After Week in Jail – Passion of the Present

The decision to free a detained newspaper director pending trial was a positive move, but pretrial detention should be the exception rather than the rule. A Tunisian judge on February 23, 2012, granted provisional release to the director of the national daily newspaper Attounsiyya after he spent a week in pretrial detention.

(Tunis) – The decision to free a detained newspaper director pending trial was a positive move, but pretrial detention should be the exception rather than the rule, Human Rights Watch said today. A Tunisian judge on February 23, 2012, granted provisional release to the director of the national daily newspaper Attounsiyya after he spent a week in pretrial detention.