Journalists at Tunisia’s state news agency protest the appointment of a new chief executive.
The protesting media professionals say the appointment of Kamel Ben Younes is an attempt at undermining editorial independence.
Dozens of the journalists gathered infront of the news agency, known as Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) chanting ‘’TAP is free’’. We have never seen a CEO who was appointed and who has access to the TAP Agency thanks to the police. It has never happened even in the other establishments , said Salma Henni, journalist within the political service of TAP.
According to the journalists, Kamel Ben Younes, is too close to the moderate Islamist Ennahda, the biggest party in parliament, accusing him of backing moves to control the press before the 2011 revolution brought democracy.