Tunisian authorities threaten to dissolve the parent company of ICIJ partner Inkyfada
A three-judge panel is set to examine a request from Tunisia’s executive office that could shutter one of the country’s leading investigative media outlets, ICIJ partner Inkyfada.
The Tunis Court of First Instance will consider Monday whether to dissolve Inkyfada’s publisher, Al Khatt. The dissolution request is not based on a single claim but appears to be the culmination of a yearslong campaign against the organization, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
“What is clear is that the procedure fits a broader pattern of institutional censorship: using administrative and judicial tools to eliminate,” Oussama Bouagila, director of RSF’s North Africa office, told ICIJ in a message.
Al Khatt is a nongovernmental organization founded in 2013 to foster independent journalism and media literacy in Tunisia. It also publishes and partly funds Inkyfada, a longtime ICIJ partner that has contributed to several cross-border investigations, including the Panama Papers, the Pandora Papers and the Implant Files.
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