Tunisia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- June 1, 1959, amended on July 12, 1988 and in 2002
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the French and Islamic systems; partial review of legislative acts by the Supreme Court
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, composed of the House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwaab) and the House of Councillors
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Cassation
RELIGIONS
98% Muslims, 1% Christians, 1% Jews and others
From the country
OCTOBER 7, 2025TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: COURT RELEASES MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER WIDESPREAD CRITICISM
A Tunisian court released a man on October 7, 2025 who had been sentenced to death just last week for Facebook posts criticising the president, following a wave of public criticism and human rights concerns over the case.
OCTOBER 6, 2025TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FACEBOOK POSTS SEEN AS INSULTING TO THE PRESIDENT
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to President Kais Saied and a threat to state security, his lawyer said on October 3, 2025.
FEBRUARY 27, 2025TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: EIGHT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 MURDER OF OPPOSITION LEADER
A Tunisian court sentenced eight defendants to death on February 25, 2025 over the 2013 assassination of leftist opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, according to local reports.
MARCH 27, 2024TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: FOUR PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 ASSASSINATION OF POLITICIAN
A Tunisian court on March 27, 2024 sentenced four people to death and two to life in prison on charges of participating in the murder of prominent political leader Chokri Belaid 11 years ago.
MARCH 16, 2023TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DEADLY BLAST NEAR US EMBASSY
A Tunisian court has condemned to death two nationals of the North African country for a 2020 suicide attack that killed a policeman near the United States embassy, local media said on 14 March 2023.
NOVEMBER 10, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: LAUNCH OF A NETWORK OF LAWYERS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
The Tunisian Coalition against the Death Penalty (CTCPM), in collaboration with ECPM, the Organization against Torture in Tunisia (OCTT) and the Danish institute against torture (Dignity) on October 15 and 16, 2022, organized lawyers in Hammamet.
MARCH 9, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2016 ATTACKS
A Tunisian court sentenced 16 people to death in the first judgments against militants involved in 2016 attacks near the Libyan border that left scores dead, media reported on 5 March 2022.
- JANUARY 17, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
TUNISIA: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ARMY SERGEANT
A Tunisian court has sentenced to death nine militants accused of having beheaded a soldier in 2016, a murder claimed by the Daesh group, media reported on 14 January 2022.
DECEMBER 20, 2021TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: SENTENCES RANGING FROM 12 YEARS IN PRISON TO DEATH PENALTY HANDED DOWN IN TERRORISM CASES
The criminal chamber at the judicial counter-terrorism division rendered judgements in several terror cases.
JUNE 9, 2021TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF POLICE OFFICER IN 2017
A court in Tunisia sentenced to death a takfiri for the murder of Commandant Riadh Barrouta killed in a stabbing attack back in 2017 at Bardo Museum in capital Tunis.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: ‘MURDER DESERVES THE DEATH PENALTY’, SAYS PRESIDENT KAÏS SAÏED
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced his position in favour of resuming executions during the National Security Council meeting on 28 September 2020, saying that “murder deserves the death penalty”.
- JUNE 24, 2020ItalyDEATH PENALTY
THE SEMINAR ‘TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN TUNISIA’ BEGINS IN TUNIS
The seminar "Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Tunisia" begins in Tunis on 25 June 2020, which represents the final act of the project supported by the European Union aimed at containing the death penalty in times of "war on terrorism" in the