Tunisian journalists' union elects new board as its congress closes

Tunisia's journalists' union SNJT closed its 7th congress on 11 October by electing a nine-member executive board, with outgoing president Zied Dabbar topping the vote; the board has yet to choose its own president. On the congress's opening day, parliament's rights and freedoms committee chair Thabet El Abed called for the release of journalists detained for their work, saying any detention must meet tests of necessity, guarantees and proportionality. The union already names four jailed colleagues, Zied El-Heni, Mourad Zeghidi, Mohamed Yousfi and Borhen Bsaies, as the cases it wants resolved.

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