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March 13, 2023: First plenary session of Tunisia’s new National Assembly, following the December 2022 legislative elections and after President Kais Saied suspended and then dissolved the previous assembly on July 25, 2021. To everyone’s surprise, the national and international press were barred from this inaugural session, contrary to the practice of media openness that had been in place since the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Only Tunisian National Television and the state news agency were authorized to cover this opening day. Journalists, at the call of their union, the SNJT, staged an impromptu sit-in in front of the barriers and police officers who were barring them from entering the assembly.

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