56-year-old convicted of criticizing the president. "The highest possible penalty"

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The 56-year-old Tunisian received the "highest possible punishment" for insulting the country's president Kaisa Saied," informed the local League of Human Rights. The man was to print Facebook posts that hit the leader of Tunisia. The 56-year-old's household is shocked by the severity of the sentence. Although the death punishment is inactive in force in this African country and has been tried on occasion, neither conviction has been enforced for more than 30 years.

56-year-old Saber Chouchane from Tunisia was sentenced by a court in Nabeul to death punishment for... entries posted on Facebook. It's about posts in which a man criticized the president of Kaisa Saied's country. Chouchane's attorney, Oussama Bouthalja, stressed that the 56-year-old is “a specified laborer of limited education”, and that the harshness and unprecedentedness of the judgement is shocking to him.

A 56-year-old household besides survived the shock. "We are a household suffering from poverty, and now oppression and injustice have joined poverty," said the convicted brother, Jamal Chouchane.

Any consolation to Saber Chouchane and his loved ones is the fact that the death punishment in practice has not been enforced in Tunisia for decades. However, this does not mean that the sentences cannot be enforced again – the final punishment inactive exists in the Tunisian penal code.

The conviction sparked a wave of criticism among the Tunisians, any of whom believe that president Saied is trying to throw a show of force at the expense of Chouchane, which will scare his opponents and discourage them from openly criticizing the authorities. any propose that taking over by the incumbent leader was a coup d'état.

Source: polsantews.pl