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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and agencies

Migrant rights advocate held in Tunisia under anti-terrorist investigation

A line of people queueing while holding empty plastic water bottles
People living under difficult conditions in olive forests in the Tunisian town of Amra, near the city of Sfax, queue up for water. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Tunisian anti-terrorist investigators are handling the case of a leading advocate for migrants who has been taken into custody, in what the head of a rights group said was a troubling first for the country.

Abdallah Said, a Tunisian of Chadian origin, was questioned along with the secretary general and treasurer of his association, Enfants de la Lune, said Romdhane Ben Amor, the spokesperson for the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights.

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