Families urge Tunisia to release detained pro-migrant activists

Egyptian medics arrive on a boat carrying bodies of migrants, during a search operation after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean, along the shore in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta on September 21, 2016. [AFP]

The families of detained Tunisian pro-migrant and anti-racism activists, imprisoned since May, launched an appeal on Tuesday for their release.

Romdhane Ben Amor, the head of FTDES, an NGO, said the 10 detainees' organisations "were engaged in humanitarian work, not political advocacy".