Press release of the Follow-up Committee against Criminalization Policies

On May 21, 22 and 23, 2024, the president of the Tunisian Refugee Council and a number of employees of the organization will appear before the investigative judge at the Court of First Instance in Tunis in connection with the issuance of a request for proposals to house refugees and asylum seekers in unclassified hostels in Tunis as part of temporary housing for the most vulnerable cases of unaccompanied minors and pregnant women. The request for proposals falls within the framework of respecting transparency, administrative and financial transparency and the laws governing the work of associations.

The Tunisian Refugee Council provides its services within the framework of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, both of which have been ratified by the Tunisian state.

The work of the Tunisian Refugee Council is criminalized not for administrative and financial reasons, but for humanitarian services to vulnerable groups that the Tunisian state is abandoning despite its commitments under international, African and Arab conventions related to migration and asylum.

The Follow-up Committee emphasizes the purely political nature of the search warrant, which contradicts international instruments signed by the Tunisian state, and calls for an end to the policies of criminalizing solidarity with migrants and for the release of all those arrested and all prosecutions against them.

Dignity for refugees and asylum seekers

We will always help refugees, asylum seekers and migrants

Follow-up Committee against Criminalization of Solidarity Policies