{"id":216819,"date":"2025-12-16T02:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-trial-of-ngo-workers-accused-of-assisting-illegal-migration-opens-in-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:27:55","slug":"tunisia-trial-of-ngo-workers-accused-of-assisting-illegal-migration-opens-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-trial-of-ngo-workers-accused-of-assisting-illegal-migration-opens-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Trial of NGO Workers Accused of Assisting &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Migration Opens in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Aid workers accused of assisting irregular migration to Tunisia went on trial on Monday, as Amnesty International criticised what it called &#8220;the relentless criminalisation of civil society&#8221; in the country. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Six staff members of the Tunisian branch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france-terre-asile.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France Terre d&#8217;Asile<\/a> aid group, along with 17 municipal workers from the eastern city of Sousse, face charges of sheltering migrants and facilitating their &#8220;illegal entry and residence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">If convicted, they face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migration<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid workers accused of assisting irregular migration to Tunisia went on trial on Monday, as Amnesty International criticised what it called &#8220;the relentless criminalisation of civil society&#8221; in the country. Six staff members of the Tunisian branch of the France Terre d&#8217;Asile aid group, along with 17 municipal workers from the eastern city of Sousse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":216820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611440:deafff71d823254644e0ad0dd59e74b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[7083,258,256,17561,6918,6486,257,9222,6975,254,6564,4703,653,6498],"class_list":["post-216819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assisting","tag-illegal","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-ngo","tag-opens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611440:deafff71d823254644e0ad0dd59e74b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}