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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Tarek Amara

Tunisia detains a journalist who criticized police, second reporter held in a month

FILE PHOTO: Members of the police stand guard during an anti-government protest in Tunis, Tunisia January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi/File Photo

A Tunisian court on Thursday detained a journalist who criticised police and the interior minister, the main journalism union said, denouncing a setback in freedom of expression since President Kais Saied seized executive power last summer.

Chahrazed Akacha was the second journalist to be imprisoned within a month, after another was jailed for a week in March for publishing a story on militants.

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