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30/10/2025 – 10/12/2025

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  • On 27 November 2025, the European Parliament adopted an urgent resolution raising serious concerns about the deterioration of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms in Tunisia, highlighting the case of lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani.  
  • According to a report by France24 on 24 November 2025, two aid workers accused of helping irregular migrants to enter Tunisia were sentenced to two years in prison, though they will be released due to time already served. The case concerns Mustapha Djemali, an 81-year-old Tunisian-Swiss national who heads the Tunisian Refugee Council, and TRC project manager Abderrazek Krimi, who were charged with “sheltering” migrants and “facilitating illegal entry” into Tunisia. They were among a dozen aid workers arrested in May 2024 during a government crackdown.  
  • On 6 November 2025, Amnesty International published a new report titled “Nobody hears you when you scream”: Dangerous shift in Tunisia’s migration policy”. The investigation finds that over the past three years, Tunisian migration policies have ignored the safety, dignity and lives of refugees and asylum seekers. Collective expulsion conducted by government officials violate the principle of non-refoulment, and migrants are exposed to torture, ill-treatment and sexual violence. The report highlights that “Tunisia is therefore neither a place of safety for disembarkation nor a “safe third country” for the transfer of asylum seekers.”.  
  • Tunisia has repatriated more than 10,000 migrants in 2025, Reuters reported on 4 November 2025. According to Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Nafti, a majority comes from sub-Saharan countries. He stated that Tunisia has emphasised to its European partners that “it will not become a transit zone.”