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Mike Thomson
BBC World Service News
A Senegalese man who piloted a boat in the English Channel has been found guilty of the manslaughter of four migrants who drowned when it ran into difficulty. The jailed head of Tunisia’s Islamic opposition Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, has joined a hunger strike by other political detainees to mark a year since their detention began.
Ibrahima Bah, a migrant himself, had offered to steer the dinghy in December 2022 in exchange for a free crossing. Mr Ghannouchi who has accused Tunisia’s President Kaïs Saïed of mounting a coup was given a three-year prison sentence earlier this month after being convicted for accepting external financing.
He had claimed that he was forced by violent smugglers to make the journey with at least 43 other migrants. President Saïed has closed the Ennahda party’s headquarters, jailed many leading political opponents and critical journalists and reduced the independence of the country’s courts.
A jury at the UK's Canterbury Crown Court also found Bah guilty of facilitating a breach of immigration law. He claims the measures were necessary to prevent chaos and root out corruption.
Read more about the case here: Dinghy pilot guilty over Channel migrant deaths
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