According to the Tunis Agency Africa Press (TAP), journalists will benefit from the right of professional secrecy in the same way as lawyers and doctors, within the scope of the law against anti-terrorism and money laundering in Tunisia.

TAP specifies that the assurance was given by the President of the Representatives of the People's Assembly (ARP), Mohamed Ennaceur. On Friday 24 July 2015, he met with a delegation composed of the President of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), Néji Baghouri, the President of the Tunisian League of Human Rights (LTDH), as well as two representatives of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), namely Abdessatar Ben Moussa and Nabil Jmour.

They were expressing the concerns raised by Article 35 of the bill being debated in parliament. Right up to this point, this article did not afford journalists the right to protect their sources, while allowing lawyers this prerogative. On Thursday 23 July, the Representatives of the People's Assembly had rejected the amendment in favour of journalists proposed by the deputy of "Courant de l'Amour", Samia Abbou.

At the moment the bill stipulates : "In breach of the law and punishable from one to five years imprisonment and a fine (...) is anyone, even those bound by professional secrecy, who does not immediately signal to the competent authorities, the (...) information relating to the Commission of Terrorist Offences."

But the President of ARP has guaranteed that the Commission has reached a compromise and formulated an amendment, with the Minister of Justice. Journalists will be added to the category of professionals who benefit from the right to professional secrecy. Enough to reassure the President of the SNJT who had denounced the calling into question of press freedom as a return to "former practices".