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| Olfa Riahi |
Today I
will analyze the importance of women in the media in Tunisia. In particular, I
will speak of the important figure of the blogger Olfa Riahi. Olfa has become
important for the charges that has moved against an influential Islamist
minister for corruption and adultery. Immediately was born the "Sheraton
Gate". Despite the Arab Revolution, freedom of press and expression in
Tunisia is limited, for this Olfa has been denounced for "spreading
unfounded information against state institutions." The woman has accused
the Islamist Prime Minister Mr. Abdessalam had received a million dollars
offered by the Chinese government without going through the State Treasury. She
has also published photos of the invoices proving the cost of staying in a big
hotel in Tunis on behalf of the Foreign Minister of Tunisia, and a woman who
was not his wife accompanied him, but she does not know the identity. Olfa for
doing her job as a journalist she has been deprived of her freedom to travel
until this issue is clarified. This is nothing but a clear attempt to
intimidate the journalist. The important investigative action carried out by
the blogger Olfa proves the change in the way of doing journalism in Tunisia
after the Revolution, but especially her testimony makes us realize how cease
the rights of freedom of the press and of expression, to all journalists, but
especially for those of female gender.
Journalists
have always been a category that suffers significant limitations in Tunisia. But
today this turns out to be a jarring note in a country where it has fought to
end the dictatorship of Ben Ali. In the Arab Spring, women have played an
important role, they were the real engine of the revolution. They have fought
for freedom of expression, because a problem that it has always been about the
female world. These struggles are proving unsuccessful, because the an-Nahda
party that took control of the country through the elections that it has very
little legitimate it is trying to censor the press. Only in this way gets its
way to make Tunisia a Muslim country and not more secular.
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