French PhD student Victor Dupont has been detained in Tunisia on charges of violating state security for at least 12 days. His academic supervisor said he had been conducting interviews about the career paths of people who protested in the 2011 uprising and that it was sociological, not political, in nature. … Read more
The bodies of 16 migrants and refugees have been recovered by the Tunisian coast guard off the country's eastern coast, the National Guard says, in the latest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean. “The bodies were found over the weekend and on Monday… The victims have not been identified because the bodies had decomposed,” a … Read more
The European Commission is refusing to publish the findings of a human rights investigation in Tunisia it carried out shortly before announcing a controversial migration deal with the increasingly authoritarian North African country. An investigation by the EU Ombudsman found that the commission quietly carried out a human rights “risk management exercise” in Tunisia, but … Read more
The EU will not be able to recover any of the €150m (£125m) paid to Tunisia despite the money being increasingly linked to human rights violations, including allegations that sums went to forces security officers who raped immigrant women. The European Commission paid that amount to the Tunisian government in a controversial migration and development … Read more