Tunisia: Criticism Over Treatment of Migrants As Europe Presses for Solutions

by | Aug 6, 2023 | Diplomacy, Political, Security, Tunisia

Summary:

Throughout July and early August, international and domestic criticism continued over the treatment of migrants along Tunisia’s borders as hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans were forcibly re-located.

Reports indicated that as many as 2000 migrants were forcibly transferred to desert areas along Tunisia’s southern borders with Libya and Algeria. Libyan authorities have reported finding over a dozen bodies of migrants claiming they were forced into the desert by Tunisian authorities.

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