09 March 2022 :

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. A total of 96 people stand accused in the trial relating to the March 2016 events that saw the town of Ben Guerdane become the stage of a bloody battle as members of the Islamic State group's Libya branch staged a series of deadly attacks.
The court specialised in terrorism offences handed 16 of the defendants Tunisia's toughest sentence, though the country has imposed a moratorium on capital punishment since 1991.
The remaining defendants were handed sentences ranging from four years to life in prison, though a small but unspecified number of defendants were acquitted, the reports said.
The prosecution said it would appeal.
Following the attacks in Ben Guerdane, the Tunisian authorities said they had thwarted an attempt by the IS militant group to establish a foothold within the country.
The attacks killed 13 members of the security forces and seven civilians. In addition, 55 attackers were also killed.
Following the 2011 revolution that toppled longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia saw a surge in militant attacks across the country.
Many Tunisians also travelled to Syria or Iraq to join the Islamic State group or other extremists.
The security situation has greatly improved in recent years, but Tunisian forces continue to hunt suspected militants in parts of the country.

17 January 2022 :

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.
The verdict concerns the murder of army corporal Said Ghozlani in November 2016, in the Mount Mghila area near the border with Algeria.
He was found beheaded in his home in that region, which is considered a hideout for militants.
The Daesh group claimed responsibility for killing the soldier.
The Tunis court on 14 January also sentenced to jail 15 people accused of involvement in the murder, with terms ranging from 32 to 44 years in prison.

10 November 2022 :

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, on the sidelines of the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
This seminar was a continuation of the first training course for actors in the criminal justice chain in Tunisia organized in May 2022 and aimed to create a network of lawyers against the death penalty.
23 participants, including lawyers and a psychologist, met for two days during which they discussed, in particular, the link between torture and the death penalty and worked on the development of a charter for the creation of a network of lawyers. This meeting was particularly marked by the participation of the Secretary General of the Tunisian Bar Association, the first representation of the Bar in an activity of the CTCPM and ECPM, who announced his commitment to continue the organization of joint actions.
Mr. Chokri Latif, President of the CTCPM, Ms. Jo-Anne Prud’homme du Hancourt, Director of the Tunis Office of DIGNITY, Mr. Hassen Toukabri, Secretary General of the Tunisian Bar Association and Ms. Anna Dubarle, representing the team international programs at ECPM gave opening speeches in which they notably recalled the state of the death penalty in Tunisia, in the region and in the world.
The program of the first day continued with two panels.
The first consisted of interventions by Me Mondher Cherni, lawyer and secretary general of the OCTT, with a presentation on torture and the death penalty in international law and Tunisian law; and Mr. Chokri Latif who reviewed the history of the death penalty in Tunisia from the reign of the beys and French colonization, to independence and the Tunisian revolution.
After a long time of exchanges and debate, the presentations resumed with a second panel composed of Me Ahmed Seddik, a lawyer, who attended the trial of Saddam Hussein and shared his testimony highlighting the unfair, vindictive and inhuman aspect of trial and enforcement; and Mr. Hatem Hacheche, Doctor of Psychology, who highlighted the psychological impacts of the death penalty, akin to torture, at the trial, detention and execution stages, both on the condemned but also on his family and the executioner.
The first day ended with the intervention of Me Mohamed Messaoudi, Moroccan lawyer and member, since its creation in 2013, of the Network of lawyers against the death penalty in Morocco. He returned to the experience of setting up the network as well as the activities carried out within its framework: round tables, visits to prisons, bills, etc.
The last morning was devoted to a group workshop during which the lawyers were able to discuss and draft a founding text for the creation of a Tunisian network, based on the charter of the Moroccan Network made available by Me Messaoudi.
A final text was ratified by all the lawyers present and the seminar concluded with the announcement of the creation of the first Network of Tunisian lawyers against the death penalty.
This activity was organized within the framework of the joint project of the CTCPM and ECPM “Strengthening progress towards the abolition of the death penalty in the Maghreb”, co-financed by Norway and the French Development Agency.