Amal Mekki: my battle against the Tunisian authorities and the cost of truth 

When our reporter Amal Mekki won a legal victory against Tunisia’s Ministry of the Interior in 2018, she was optimistic about enhancing access to information in her country. As a SWI swissinfo.ch journalist observing from Switzerland, she now realises that one judicial decision alone cannot transform reality. When I entered the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior that day, I asked a police officer: “I’m a journalist, and I’m here to submit a right-to-information request. Who should I give it to?” His...