Abdullah Al-Haqim 
A horrific crime has shook the death of a four -year -old child Tunisia Brave a wave of popular anger and backbiting the debate in the death penalty.
It has been found Tuesday On a 4 -year -old child was killed in one of the areas of Kasserine Governorate (central Tunisia), and it was found that he was sexually assaulted before his killing.
Security investigations revealed that the child Aaron was killed by his 20 -year -old cousin with the participation of a minor who was only 14 years old, after they sexually assaulted him.
Popular
Activists on social media transmitted videos of the child’s victim’s mother crying her child, which sparked a great wave of anger in Tunisia. The voices were called for the maximum penalties for the criminal.
The heinous crime renovated the death penalty in Tunisia, which has always been controversial between those calling for its return in order to deter criminals, and whoever refuses to do so, demanding the Tunisian authorities to completely cancel it.
Activists launched A campaign under the “Applied Execution” campaign demanding the death of the killer. On “Facebook”, a page entitled “A campaign to activate the execution of the death sentence in Tunisia” was created soon the number of subscribers exceeded a thousand in a few hours.
This is not the first time that a similar crime has moved the debate in the death penalty in Tunisia.
A penalty that is not implemented
Tunisian law provides for the execution of the death penalty after the president is signed, and Tunisia has not carried out any death sentence since the execution of Nasser Al -Demerji, famous for the “Nabeul Deaf” in 1991, which was convicted of killing 14 children And rape. But the Tunisian courts continued, though, to issue death sentences,
According to human rights reports, there are more than 130 sentences of death in Tunisian prisons, including 3 women.
On Monday, the Tunisian judiciary issued a new death sentence against a defendant for a terrorist operation.
Vote
Although it did not stop issuing death sentences, Tunisia has voted since 2012 in the interest of the United Nations General Assembly decisions calling for the suspension of the use of the death penalty.
Tunisia has already adhered to since 1991 to suspend the execution of the executions, according to the head of the Tunisian coalition, to cancel the death penalty, Shukri Latif, but it did not issue an official decision to cancel it, which constitutes a conflict in its positions in accordance with the Tunisian human rights jurists, who calls for “the translation of this commitment to a comprehensive and official cancellation in the near future and fulfill its international obligations.”
Jurists fear that this punishment will turn into a tool to pressure politicians “especially in light of the current climate,” according to Latif.
In response to the votes that consider that the failure to carry out the death penalty contributed to the high level of violence and the commission of crimes described, Latif says: “We are not against the implementation of the law and deterrence, but the solution does not lie in the implementation of the death penalty, as it is necessary to address the origin of the problem and go towards diagnosing the phenomenon of violence and determining its causes and finding solutions to it instead of resorting to easy solutions.”
President Qais Saeed expressed his support for the death penalty.
