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   NORTH AFRICA WAN-IFRA condemns attacks on Tunisian journalists
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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on Friday, 30 October 2009, condemned the beating of a Tunisian journalist, allegedly by police, and the arrest of another, and called on the Tunisian authorities to abandon their campaign of intimidation against the independent press. 
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