organizations like the LTDH as well as other socio-professional Associations and Opposition Parties and constitute a real vector of intellectual and political pluralism. The Audio-visual Landscape 196. The audio-visual landscape is enriched by the launching of private radio stations « Mosaïque FM » and « Jawhara FM », of the cultural Radio as well as the entry into service of the first private television channel « Hannibal TV ». Apart from the national television and radio programmes, five regional radio stations cover the various regions of the country. Special radio and television channels are operated for the young listeners such as « Canal 21 » and « Radio of the youth ». 197. All these audiovisual mediums deal with the different concerns of the Tunisians and ceaselessly show a certain audacity in tackling supposedly taboo subjects such as juvenile delinquence, construction workers, Aids, Divorce, Employment, etc. The Parliamentary debates are broadcast direct on television. Televised reports re-broadcast directly the opinions of the representatives of the Opposition and of civil society. 198. During the presidential and legislative elections of 1999 and 2004, air time reserved by the radio and television was allocated, under judicial control, to all the candidates, whatever their affiliation, so that each candidate could present his programmes to the voters through the audio-visual media with neither distinction nor discrimination and so that the voter could express his position with full conviction and with full knowledge of the facts. 199. Nonetheless, the freedom of opinion and of expression should not at all hinder the dissemination of the values of tolerance. With this in mind, the Tunisian penal law in effect punishes all calls to fanaticism, to religious and racial hatred and the perpetration of terrorist acts. In effect, the law n° 2003-75 of 10th December 2003, relative to the support of international efforts in combatting terrorism and the repression of money laundering, stipulated in its Article 6, that « acts of incitement to hatred or to racial or religious fanaticism, whatever the means used, are subjected to the same system as that of offenses qualified as terrorist ». 200. Likewise, Article 44 of the Press Code, as amended by the organic law n° 93-85 of 2nd August 1993, stipulates that « shall be punished by imprisonment ranging from two months to three years and a fine of 1,000 to 2,000 Dinars whosoever, by the same means mentioned in Artice 42, may have directly either incited hatred between races, or religions, or populations, or the propagation of opinions based on racial segregation or religious fundamentalism, or provoked the perpetration of the offenses outlined in Article 48 of the present Code, or incited the population to break the laws of the country». 201. Similarly, in accordance with the principles aimed at the elimination of racial discrimination proclaimed in the International Agreements to which Tunisia has acceded, Article 44 of the Press Code as amended by organic law n° 93-85 of 2nd August 1993, had extended the punishment indicated for the perpetrators of 45