Tunisia-Tunisia ranks No.1 in Arab world in 2020 World Press Freedom Index

Tunisia was ranked 72 on the global scale and 1st in the Arab world on the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for 2020, the country jumped by an impressive 25 points.

To compile the Index, RSF has developed an online questionnaire with 87 questions focused on these criteria. Translated into 20 languages including English, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Indonesian and Korean, the questionnaire is targeted at the media professionals, lawyers and sociologists who are asked to complete it. Scores are calculated on the basis of the responses of the experts selected by RSF combined with the data on abuses and violence against journalists during the period evaluated

RSF, an NGO that safeguards the right to freedom of information, said that Five years after the January 2011 revolution, Tunisia is enjoying a new climate favourable to the emergence and consolidation of media freedom and independence. There were no physical aggression of late, no arrestation and no trial of journalists.