Tunisia must stop returning asylum-seekers to Libya

Headline Title:  Tunisia must stop returning asylum-seekers to Libya 14 December 2011  The Tunisian authorities must allow asylum-seekers to enter the country through Libyan border crossings and give them access to UN officials to establish their refugee status, Amnesty International said today, after another group of asylum-seekers was returned across the Libyan border.In the latest in a series of such incidents, on 10 December Tunisian security forces returned a group of sub-Saharan African asylum-seekers to their point of entry along the Libyan border.The group of more than…

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