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Tunisia to deport 25 African asylum seekers, 12 years later

A refugee in Choucha camp, near the border between Tunisia and Libya, on 24 April 2011. © AFP/Hichem Borni

A Tunisian rights group has condemned a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp.

Twenty-five men from Egypt, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan had sought asylum in Tunisia after fleeing violence in neighbouring Libya in 2011, but their requests were denied, according to Romdhane Ben Amor of the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights (FTDES).

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