‘Assassination Testing’ restarts: What is the history of Tunisia with death penalty? | Human Rights News

Mass testing is set to continue more than 40 people in Tunisia accused of various assassination The province of Tunisia and his president SIBIED.

First, the court scheduled to start on March 4, 11 April was postponed to April, and then again postponed again.

Among the accused are the country’s largest opposition politicians, diplomats and media identities To break the charges of contacting “external forces”, including Siave’s rule, faded and a symbol of the democratic demolition of Tunisia.

Approximately all defendants are either a long prison sentence or a death penalty.

Despite the transfer of the sentence, the executions in Tunisia have been suspended effectively since 1991.

Will some defendants be sentenced to death? And will such a sentence be performed?

Let’s look more closely.

Is the death penalty still available in Tunisia as a punishment?

The death penalty remains a legal penalty for judges, but not implemented since 1991, a facto moratorium.

The 2014 Constitution is a special benefits for legal executions, but the Tunisia has supported the United Nations support for the use of a global moratorium on the use of death penalty since 2012.

However, the death penalty did not cancel the punishment.

People were sentenced to death in Tunisia?

The last person to be executed in Tunisia, the serial killer Naceur Damergi, hanged in 1991, continues to be penalty legislation and sentences.

In February this year, in February this year, the opposition politician, Mohammad Brahmi was sentenced to death in March 2024, four politicians and Chokri Belaid were sentenced to 4 deaths.

16 people accused of being a member of Ishil in 2022 (ISIS), were sentenced to death in the city of 2016, killing 13 members of the 2016 city and 13 members of the security forces.

Similarly, in January 2020, the Tunisian Court, the 2015 presidential security guard and 20 people injured in Tunisia, were sentenced to death in order to kill the presidential security for their death in 2015.

Is it one of the defendants ‘assassination work’ facing death penalty?

Jaouhar Ben MubakIshazi Turki, Ghazi Chaouachi, Ghazi Chaouachi, Ridha Bellhaj and Arrested Abdelhamid Jelassi since February 2023, in Article 72 of the Criminal Code, “change the state’s essence”.

If the sinner is found, they will face death penalty.

Another suspect trying to change the nature of the state, former Minister of Justice Noureddine Bhiri, was allegedly authored by a number of social media posts.

Other accusations against the accused apply to the terrorist group of terrorists and the terrorist group, and two of them are capital crimes.

The President attitude towards the death penalty of the cause?

Supports it.

During the first presidential hostings of 2019, Kais Saried, during this period, was easily accepted to support the death penalty.

In 2020, 29-year-old Rahma responded to popular anger after the brutal assassination, Sib returned to the issue again and “deserves the punishment for the Security Council.”

However, despite the expansion of their political rivals and critics, it is important to note that despite the expansion of their political rivals and critics.