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Amnesty International has slammed Tunisia for committing “widespread human rights violations” against irregular migrants, including rape and torture, and condemned the EU’s “cynical” cooperation with Tunis to curb irregular migration.
Asharq Al-Awsat reports that in a new report based on research between February 2023 and June 2025, Amnesty said it had interviewed some 120 refugees and migrants, mostly from Guinea, Sudan and Sierra Leone.
The rights group said, “Tunisia’s migration and asylum system is now characterized by racist policing and widespread human rights violations.”
It said that the system “generally disregards the lives, safety and dignity of refugees and migrants, particularly those who are Black.”
The organization said it interviewed 20 black migrants who were attacked by mobs in Tunis during February and March 2023.
It also said it “found that the Tunisian coastguard repeatedly resorted to reckless, unlawful and violent actions that put people’s lives at risk and indeed caused deaths.”
The rights group also criticized the EU for a July 2023 agreement with Tunisia to tackle irregular migration. It said it had come “during a peak of racist violence” and “without effective human rights safeguards.”
On Wednesday, Tunisian Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Nafti said all migrants who entered Tunisian territory illegally would be repatriated “with human dignity.”
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