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Tunisia court frees NGO workers accused of helping migrants

FILE - Migrants hold placards reading "Black Lives Matter", left, in French, during a gathering in Sfax, Tunisia's eastern coast, on 7 July, 2023. AP

A Tunisian court has freed a group of humanitarian workers after handing them suspended sentences for facilitating the "illegal entry and residence" of migrants, a support committee said on Tuesday.

Sherifa Riahi, the former director of the French NGO Terre d'Asile, and several members of her staff had already spent more than 20 months in jail by the time of their final hearing on Monday.

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