On Monday evening, the tunisian police and military blocked 130 refugees from Choucha Camp to leave from Ben Guerdane to Tunis. The refugees were supposed to travel on three busses to the capital in order to attend the World Social Forum and its opening demonstration on tuesday. In the next days there are several workshops and actions planned concerning the situation in the Choucha Refugee Camp. In order to allow the refugees to attend these activities, they obtained permissions from the Ministery of Defense and invitations from the FTDES for the WSF. One of the refugees says: “The authorities are playing with us!”
We condemn this unaccaptable manner of Tunisian authorities and demand freedom of movement for everyone in Tunisia and beyond!
One of the main topics of this years World Social Forum commencing this week in Tunis is migration. Everybody participating and sympathysing with the WSF is urgently asked to support the travel of Choucha Refugees from Ben Guerdane / Choucha to Tunis!
