Tunisian human rights groups criticize “inhumane” measure to deport migrants

MADRID, 27 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Human Rights group ‘Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights’ (FTDES) has condemned this Sunday the Tunisian Government’s decision to deport a group of 25 migrants who had been evacuated from a dismantled refugee camp.

The FTDES has “expressed its outrage at the Prime Minister’s decision, the content of his inhumane and oppressive communication, and his discriminatory expressions,” reads a statement, which refers to the expulsion of migrants from several African countries and fleeing from the violence in Libya in 2011.

In addition, the forum has warned ” once morest any attempt to impose a solution by force on a vulnerable group” and has renewed “the call for an exceptional solution” that “responds to the aspirations of asylum seekers.”

“Day following day, the Tunisian government’s policy becomes more brutal, not only towards its citizens, but also towards refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants, due to suspected incidents of drowning at sea, illegal detentions and targeted security campaigns. “, the letter continues.

Likewise, the organization has stressed that the authorities have “the political and moral responsibility for the physical and psychological health of asylum seekers.”

Civil society organizations have appealed to all parts of the Tunisian government, national organizations, the European Union and all the countries that were parties to the Libyan crisis “in an attempt to find a solution, but to no avail.”

Since 2017, the migrants have been living in a youth center in Marsa, a suburb of the capital, following being evacuated from the Choucha refugee camp, when the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) decided to close it “without resolving all the situations”.