A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president
TUNIS, Tunısıa (AP)-a court in Tunisia, sentenced a 51-year-old man to attack Facebook posts President Kais Saied The lawyer is a threat to state security on Friday.
The defendant was sentenced to three charges on Wednesday: Trying to overthrow the state, insulting the President and spreading online wrong information. Judges, tasks caused violence and chaos, and Tunisia’s criminal law and controversial 2022 Cyber Crime Law, violating the decree, he said.
The decision is the first example of its species in Tunisia, Duzines were sentenced to heavy imprisonment On similar charges since Saed has seized power on all branches of the government in July 2021.
In the Tunisian Penal Code and from time to time in the Tunisian Penal Code, the investment penalty has been imposed on a serial killer in 1991, although none of them have been imposed in 1991.
Facebook said in a statement, lawyer Oussama Bouhelja, his client has been a pre -hearing since January 2024, he said. He said that three of them were occasionally a worker and suffered from a permanent injury caused by a workplace accident.
Bouthelja described him as a social vulnerable and limited educational history, as online.
Bouthelja, “Most of the content he shared was copied from other pages, and some publications have never had an aim,” he wrote. “In court, his intention was not to provoke the attention of the authorities, not to provoke unrest, but to attract to difficult living conditions.”
Decision, the last use Decree 54“A law that has made“ producing, spreading, spreading, sending, sending, sending or writing in order to violate the rights of others, to harm public security or national defense or to bread terror between the population.
Tunisian, Birth Place of 2011 Arab Spring UprisingFor a long time, it has been seen as the last light of hope for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. However, political freedoms shrunk, as Saied had suspended parliament and reinforced its own power in 2021. Saied continues to manage with the decree and his most well -known critics are either in prison or abroad.
Tunisia warned rights advocates that the implementation of the death penalty for online speech constitutes a dangerous precedent.
