A group of about 30 Sudanese migrants living in Tunisia have filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee, alleging mistreatment. These Sudanese individuals are registered as asylum seekers with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tunisia. They had been living for several months in a camp set up in front of the UN agency’s offices but were forcibly removed by police on the night of May 2-3, during which hundreds of people were evicted and some were deported to the Algerian border in the middle of the desert.
This group of Sudanese migrants, who filed the complaint, were among those sent to the desert. David Yambio, founder of the “Refugees in Libya” account on Twitter, stated, “They were on their way to Algeria when the fuel ran out in the Tunisian police vehicles, leaving them about five kilometers from the Algerian border.”
Speaking with Migrant News, Italian lawyer Lucia Gennari, a member of the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration (ASGI), said, “Among the group, there were very vulnerable individuals such as children and the sick. They were left in an unknown place, at risk of assault or mistreatment by authorities or even local residents. Given the overall situation in Tunisia, the risk of racial attacks is very high.” She also noted that some migrants were prevented from boarding trains to return to Tunis.
