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EN – Saving human lives is a priority
On Saturday, 1 March 1 2025, the Watch The Med Alarm Phone network issued an alert concerning a serious case of distress: 32 people were reported to be on the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese SAR zone.
The people reported to Alarm phone that they had been without food for days and that their condition was very critical. They also reported the death of one person.
Despite the alert given to the Tunisian and Maltese authorities, as well as to the Italian authorities, who passed the case on to the Libyan forces, no rescue appears to be planned.
The signatory associations urge the competent authorities to intervene quickly to rescue those in distress.
They also recall that saving lives is an obligation for all States.
They also stress that rescue can be considered complete when people are taken to a place of safety, where they are not subjected to violence, expulsion, detention or any other form of institutional racist harassment.
https://x.com/alarm_phone/status/1896159121638072675?t=sjptFGOxv1ysX4gZNfnzFg&s=19
https://x.com/seawatch_intl/status/1896265530887323783
– Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights FTDES
– Tunisian Association of Democratic Women ATFD
World Organization Against Torture OMCT
– Lawyers Without Borders ASF
– Association Bayti
– Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality
– Tunisian Association for the Defense of Individual Freedoms
– I WATCH organization
– Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
– Tunisian Organization Against Torture
– No peace without justice
– Stop Pollution Movement Gabes
– Your Voice Association Gabes
– Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia
– Federation of Tunisians for Citizenship between the Two Rivers
EN – Saving human lives is a priority
On Saturday, 1 March 1 2025, the Watch The Med Alarm Phone network issued an alert concerning a serious case of distress: 32 people were reported to be on the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese SAR zone.
The people reported to Alarm phone that they had been without food for days and that their condition was very critical. They also reported the death of one person.
Despite the alert given to the Tunisian and Maltese authorities, as well as to the Italian authorities, who passed the case on to the Libyan forces, no rescue appears to be planned.
The signatory associations urge the competent authorities to intervene quickly to rescue those in distress.
They also recall that saving lives is an obligation for all States.
They also stress that rescue can be considered complete when people are taken to a place of safety, where they are not subjected to violence, expulsion, detention or any other form of institutional racist harassment.
https://x.com/alarm_phone/status/1896159121638072675?t=sjptFGOxv1ysX4gZNfnzFg&s=19
https://x.com/seawatch_intl/status/1896265530887323783
– Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights FTDES
– Tunisian Association of Democratic Women ATFD
World Organization Against Torture OMCT
– Lawyers Without Borders ASF
– Association Bayti
– Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality
– Tunisian Association for the Defense of Individual Freedoms
– I WATCH organization
– Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
– Tunisian Organization Against Torture
– No peace without justice
– Stop Pollution Movement Gabes
– Your Voice Association Gabes
– Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia
– Federation of Tunisians for Citizenship between the Two Rivers
EN – Saving human lives is a priority
On Saturday, 1 March 1 2025, the Watch The Med Alarm Phone network issued an alert concerning a serious case of distress: 32 people were reported to be on the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese SAR zone.
The people reported to Alarm phone that they had been without food for days and that their condition was very critical. They also reported the death of one person.
Despite the alert given to the Tunisian and Maltese authorities, as well as to the Italian authorities, who passed the case on to the Libyan forces, no rescue appears to be planned.
The signatory associations urge the competent authorities to intervene quickly to rescue those in distress.
They also recall that saving lives is an obligation for all States.
They also stress that rescue can be considered complete when people are taken to a place of safety, where they are not subjected to violence, expulsion, detention or any other form of institutional racist harassment.
https://x.com/alarm_phone/status/1896159121638072675?t=sjptFGOxv1ysX4gZNfnzFg&s=19
