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Tunisian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on media and freedom of expression in recent weeks, sentencing two journalists and a media founder to prison sentences, detaining another media figure, and intimidating private media.
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The Tunisian authorities must immediately end prosecution of political opposition figures and release those who have been held for more than a year without valid grounds . Khayam Turki, Abdelhamid Jelassi, Issam Chebbi, Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, Ghazi Chaouachi and Ridha Belhaj have been detained arbitrar