“Illusions lost…”: Testimony of a journalist amid a worsening crackdown on Tunisian press
I never thought that this day would come again—the day that exercising my profession as a journalist would become scary.
Olfa Belhassine is a Tunisian journalist who has been working with the Tunisian daily “La Presse” since 1990. After the 2011 protests, her articles started appearing in “Libération”, “Le Monde” and “Courrier International”, a testament to her extensive experience as a journalist reporting from Tunisia during President Ben Ali's rule and after his fall. In 2013, Olfa was awarded the first journalism prize of the “Center of Arab Women” for her investigative work on customary marriage in Tunisia, published in “La Presse.” Olfa has also been corresponding since 2015 for the JusticeInfo.net, a website specializing in transitional justice around the world. In 2016, she co-authored with Hedia Baraket an investigative publication on the political transition in Tunisia, titled "Ces nouveaux mots qui font la Tunisie".
I never thought that this day would come again—the day that exercising my profession as a journalist would become scary.
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