A worldwide human rights group has urged Tunisia to cease its expulsion of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants and for humanitarian providers to be offered to these languishing on the North African nation’s border with Libya.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) made the assertion on Thursday after tons of of individuals had been rounded up this week from the coastal metropolis of Sfax and pushed to Ben Guerdane, a militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone.
“Not solely is it unconscionable to abuse folks and abandon them within the desert, however collective expulsions violate worldwide legislation,” mentioned Lauren Seibert, refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW.
On the Tunisian-Libyan border, folks from African nations instructed Al Jazeera they had been being pressured to drink seawater to outlive, whereas Libyan border guards had been refusing to allow them to in.
Al Jazeera’s Malik Traina stories from town of Zuwara, close to the border between Libya and Tunisia.
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