Tunisia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder, violence and aggression, attacks against the...
- News items in the archive
- 114
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Tunisia is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 114 news items on Tunisia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
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
APRIL 8, 2020TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 1,420 INMATES RELEASED TO REDUCE PRISON POPULATION
Tunisian President Kais Saied on 31 March 2020 granted a special pardon to 1,420 inmates in order to reduce the country's prison population amid the spread of the coronavirus, official news agency TAP reported.
JANUARY 19, 2020TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: EIGHT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BOMBING THAT KILLED 12 PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS
A Tunisian court on 17 January 2020 sentenced eight people to death over a suicide bombing that targeted a presidential security bus in the capital Tunis in November 2015.
- JANUARY 1, 2020TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
- APRIL 27, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
TUNISIA: PRESS RELEASE ON THE TRAINING FOR JUDGES AND PRISON ADMINISTRATION STAFF ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DEATH PENALTY
The Arab Institute for Human Rights has organized a training session in Hammamet, on 20 and 21 April 2019, for judges and representatives of prison institutions on the role of the judge and the prison administration between human rights and the death pena
- MARCH 23, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty for the murderer of a soldier on duty at Menzel Bourguiba
18 April 2018: the accused charged with murdering a soldier at the military barracks in Zaârour of the delegation of Menzel Bourguiba (Bizerte) was sentenced to death.
MARCH 8, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 31 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORIST ATTACK
Tunisia’s Criminal Court on terrorism cases in the capital’s Court of Appeal has sentenced 31 people to death over the 2014 terrorist attack on the house of former Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Aawsat reported on 7 March 2019.
JANUARY 14, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 41 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2014 ATTACK ON ARMY
A Tunisian court has sentenced 41 jihadists to death over an attack that killed 15 soldiers on the border with Algeria in 2014, prosecutors said on 12 January 2019.
- JANUARY 10, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
TUNISIA: FIVE JIHADISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER TEEN BEHEADING
A Tunisian court on 8 January 2019 sentenced five jihadists to death over the 2015 murder of a teenage shepherd.
- JANUARY 1, 2019TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
- MAY 29, 2018TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
Croatia rejects the extradition of the alleged murderer of Mohamed Zouari
29 May 2018: the Supreme Court of Croatia prohibits extradition to Tunisia of a Bosnian suspected of killing Tunisian engineer Mohamed Zouari in 2016.
- MAY 10, 2018TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
TUNISIA HAS 1,500 DETAINEES TRIED FOR TERRORISM
The number of people tried for terrorism in Tunisia has reached 1,500 detainees, spokesperson for the judicial counter-terrorism division Sofien Sliti said.
- APRIL 4, 2018TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
OCTT ANNUAL REPORT 2017: 77 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TUNISIA
During the presentation of the Annual Report by the Organization against Torture in Tunisia (OCTT), the Vice-President, Chokri Letaief, announced that there are 77 people sentenced to death in Tunisia.
- MARCH 5, 2018TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Bizerte sentenced to death two defendants, one of whom is fleeing, in a case of murder of a 36-year-old man in the governorate of Sejnane of Bizerte.
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Bizerte sentenced to death two defendants, one of whom is fleeing, in a case of murder of a 36-year-old man in the governorate of Sejnane of Bizerte.
- JANUARY 1, 2018TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
In Tunisian law the death penalty is issued for 21 separate offenses
- NOVEMBER 2, 2017TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
a death sentence was issued by the Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal of Monastir again
a death sentence was issued by the Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal of Monastir again
- OCTOBER 10, 2017TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
The Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CTCPM) on Tuesday called on the Presidency to accelerate th
The Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CTCPM) on Tuesday called on the Presidency to accelerate th
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2017TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
TUNISIA: CONFERENCE ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN TIME OF WAR ON TERRORISM
The conference on the death penalty in time of war on terrorism that ended in Tunis was unanimous in believing that the death penalty does not contain or solve the problem of terrorism.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2017TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
the Human Rights Council adopted the final documents resulting from the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Tunisia.
the Human Rights Council adopted the final documents resulting from the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Tunisia.