Sofiane Chourabi on World Press Freedom Day 2013, at a rally organised by the Tunisian Union for Journalists. Image credit: Rabii Kalboussi. All rights reserved.
Sofiane Chourabi, a Tunisian journalist emblematic of Tunisia’s struggle for free speech and media independence, and his cameraman, Nadhir Ktari, have been missing since an unidentified group reportedly seized them in Libya last September.
On April 29, Libyan officials in the internationally recognised government announced that “terrorist elements” had executed the two men in addition to a crew from Libya’s al-Barqa Television, based, they said, on the confessions of captured militants. Tunisia’s National Union of Journalists has insisted on seeing proof of their death before accepting the news.
