Jailed Tunisian political leader faces death penalty; lawyers appeal charges
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
According to reporting by Reuters the U.N. human rights chief said that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at another site earlier this year. According to Volker Turk abuses against migrants were being "perpetrated at scale, with impunity" by both state and non-state actors, listing crimes including human trafficking, torture, forced labour, extortion, starvation, detention and mass expulsions.
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