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Zeenat Hansrod with RFI

Two years on from EU deal, violence against migrants in Tunisia remains rife

Sub-Saharan migrants head with their belongings to a bus taking them to a repatriation flight, leaving Tunis for their countries of origin on 4 March, 2023. © AFP/Fethi Belaid

Tunisia’s migration policy is under scrutiny two years on from a deal with the European Union intended to discourage illegal migration from the North African country, and from a "replacement theory" speech the same year by President Kais Saied on the "dangers" of black migration. A recent Amnesty International report has highlighted widespread human rights violations in the country.

“They took each of us one by one, surrounded us, they asked us to lay down, we were handcuffed. They beat us with everything they had: clubs, batons, iron pipes, wooden sticks."

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