Tunisians have staged a protest rally in the country's capital over the Western media's biased coverage of the murder of three American Muslim students in the US

Tunisian students, politicians and human rights activists demonstrated in the capital city of Tunis to express their outrage at the execution-style killing of the Muslim students near the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina.

Last week, a 46-year-old American named Craig Hicks shot and killed the three Muslim students -- Deah Barakat; his wife, Yusor Abu Salha; and her sister, Razan Abu Salha -- allegedly after a dispute over a parking spot near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.

“We support the independent and alternative media in the world because they give voice to the voiceless unlike the Western media who give priority to the so-called experts, politicians and intellectuals who march with the assassin [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu after the Charlie Hebdo shooting, while Muslims are victims of American terrorists are ignored,” Tunisian rights activist Hazar Ferchichi said.

Ferchichi was referring Netanyahu's participation in the mass unity rally held in protest at last month’s killing spree in Paris.

On January 7, the office of the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo came under assault by two gunmen. Some 12 people were killed in the incident.

Wassim Sbai, a Tunisian journalist, also said that “justifying the massacre perpetrated by an American extremist is a crime and a form of terrorism.”

The demonstrators criticized some Arab TV channels for not giving sufficient importance to the crime.
“Some Arab media said their priorities are in line with Western media coverage and the position of foreign governments. The savage killings of Muslims did not attract the attention of Arab TV channels. They gave more importance to the last month’s shooting in France,” Cherif Zetuni, a Tunisian political analyst, said.

The brutal shooting to deaths of the young Americans sparked outrage among Muslims in the United States.

A large number of people held a protest rally on Friday outside the White House in Washington to condemn the deaths, demanding that the deadly incident be treated as a hate crime.

More than 100 religious and community groups, including predominantly Muslim groups, have also called on the administration of US President Barack Obama to open a hate crime inquiry into the incident and publicly denounce the shootings.