ALBAWABA - Tunisia's public prosecutor detained Saadia Mosbah, a famous activist and leader of a nongovernmental organization that advocates for migrants' rights, on Tuesday, according to human rights organizations, hours after President Kais Saied accused some groups that advocate for Sub-Saharan migrants of treason.
According to local media, authorities have begun investigating Mosbah, whose nonprofit combats bigotry and protects migrants' rights, on suspicion of financial crimes.
Last weekend, residents of the southern hamlet of El Amra demonstrated in favor of deporting migrants, claiming that the situation had grown untenable.
During a National Security Council meeting on Monday, Saied stated that the migrant crisis prompted doubts about who was behind it.
Commenting on the surge in illegal immigration waves that Tunisia witnessed in recent years, President Saied attended a National Security Council meeting on Monday, where the migrant situation raised questions about who was really behind it.
"This situation cannot continue and Tunisia will not be a land for the settlement of migrants," Saied stated.
Last year, Saied claimed that the entry of thousands of illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan African countries was a "conspiracy to change the country's demographic makeup," prompting the African Union to censure Tunisia's "hate speech" toward migrants.
According to local media, following Saied's address, the judiciary began investigating several migrants' aid organizations, a move critics claim is intended to quiet them.
On Friday, Tunisian authorities hundreds of sub-Saharan asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees have been expelled from encampments in Tunis, according to a non-governmental organization.
According to the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights (FTDES), makeshift communities in Tunis, especially those near the International Organization for Migration (IOM), were dismantled. At the same time, migrants were "deported to the Algerian border".
Last year, Saied claimed that the entry of thousands of illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan African countries was a "conspiracy to change the country's demographic makeup," prompting the African Union to censure Tunisia's "hate speech" toward migrants.
