Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of Capital Punishment Calls for "Immediate Suspension of Executions in Arab Countries"

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 ".

In a statement released on Sunday, the coalition called for "fair trial conditions and the cessation of all forms of attacks on human dignity and human rights and the protection of the Palestinian people vis-à-vis to the murderous occupation machine ".

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 violating the first human rights and the 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."

"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. "