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Tunisian journalists fear jail again as freedoms erode

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Journalists in Tunisia who enjoyed a burst of press freedom after the 2011 Arab Spring are once again looking over their shoulders in the knowledge their work may land them in prison.

The 2011 overthrow of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali unshackled Tunisia’s media, but a decade later President Kais Saied’s seizure of sweeping powers began eroding those gains.

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