The Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty calls for an "immediate suspension of executions in Arab countries"

Posted in Shorouk on 31 – 03 – 2019

The Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty called on national and Arab human rights organizations to "recruit for the defense of the right to life, impose an immediate moratorium on executions and ratify the Second Protocol" Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ".
The Coalition also called for "fair trial conditions and the cessation of all forms of abuse of dignity and human rights and the protection of the Palestinian people in the face of the human rights machine. murderous occupation ".
Having declared that he rejected the death penalty and the abolitionist in Tunisia, as in the rest of the Arab world and all over the world, as a punishment punishing the human right to life , the coalition participating in the parallel summit of civil society noted that "And continues to abolish the death penalty, most Arab countries oppose human rights."
"Even though a minority of Arab countries have suspended the application of the death penalty, such as Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, courts continue to pronounce death sentences. every year in dozens of these 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 application of the death penalty or to return to implementation.
"In most Arab countries, the death penalty is linked to the torture of detainees to extract confessions, forced disappearances, prolonged detention, secrecy and impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes.
As well as the lack of judicial independence and lack of guarantee minimum standards of fair trial. "

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