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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Speakman Cordall in Tunis

Tunisia’s authoritarian descent takes new turn with migrant crackdown

People from sub-Saharan Africa camping outside the headquarters of the International Organisation for Migration on 2 March.
People from sub-Saharan Africa camping outside the headquarters of the International Organisation for Migration on 2 March. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images

A group of men and women from Sierra Leone gathered by makeshift tarpaulin tents outside the offices of the International Organisation for Migration in Tunis. The outline of small children could be seen wriggling beneath the cheap nylon blankets wrapped around their parents, as they tried to escape the cold and rain-flecked wind that blew in off the nearby lake.

A young man, withholding his name, spoke for all. “They came for us with knives and machetes,” he said. “They robbed us. They kicked down the door and dragged us from our apartment.

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