Tunisia-LTDH: “The death penalty does not deter or limit the spread of crime”

The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LTDH) has commented on calls for the death penalty against the young Rahma’s killer.

“The death penalty neither deters nor limits the spread of crime” announces the league in a press release published on Monday, September 28, 2020, affirming its commitment to the fight against violence in general and the fight against violence against women.

The LTDH said it was following with concern the increasing pace of the wave of violence and extremism ravaging Tunisian society, expressing its condemnation of these crimes and its position of principle and support for the victims and their families.

Reiterating its call for the abolition of the death penalty, the League explained that it is a punishment that “does not limit the spread of crime. What limits it instead is the state’s commitment to guarantee the economic and social rights of all groups of the population. ”

“The death penalty violates the right to life and ultimately constitutes murder in the name of the people and the state,” it adds.

The LTDH called for combating crime and all manifestations of violence, hatred, extremism and terrorism by disseminating and strengthening the culture of human rights, equality and freedom, and by rejecting torture and all practices that degrade human beings.