Call for a moratorium on executions in Arab countries

In a statement issued on Sunday, March 31, 2019, the Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty called on Arab and national human rights organizations to "recruit for the defense of the right to life, to impose an immediate moratorium on executions and to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Civil and Political Rights ".

The Coalition also called for "just and fair trial conditions and the cessation of all forms of attack on human dignity and rights, as well as on the protection of the people". Palestinian face the killing machine occupation ".
In his statement issued on the occasion of the 30th Arab Summit in Tunis, he said his rejection of the death penalty and abolitionists in Tunisia, as in the rest of the Arab world and around the world, was a punishment violating the first human rights and the right to life, Those who participated in the parallel summit of civil society said that "contrary to the consistent and consistent trend in favor of the abolition of the penalty of death, most Arab countries oppose the realization of universal human rights ".

"Although a minority of Arab countries have suspended the application of the death penalty, particularly in Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, the courts continue to impose death sentences each year in dozens of countries, and the suspension has not been degraded, "adding that" several Arab countries are resorting to the "war on terror" to broaden the scope of the application of the sentence of death or to return to its implementation.

"The death penalty in most Arab countries is linked to the torture of detainees, the forced disappearance of confessions, enforced disappearances, prolonged detention, incommunicado detention, detention and other forms of detention. impunity of perpetrators, lack of independence of justice and lack of guarantee of minimum fair trial. "