Tunis — Forty other Tunisians retained in Tripoli, Libya, were set free, said official at the Libyan Interior Ministry in charge of Migration Colonel Noureddine Mechaal.
"The arrest of Tunisians is part of a document-checking campaign to control the regularity of their stay on the Libyan territory," he noted in a statement, Thursday, to TAP, predicting a rise in the number of people released in the coming hours.
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