In Tunisia, 56-year-old Saber Shushan was sentenced to death for posts on the internet criticizing the country’s president, Kais Saied. This was reported by the Daily Mail. According to his lawyer, Ossam Butaljan, a judge in Nabeul convicted him for his social media posts and handed down the death penalty. The lawyer described the decision as "astonishing and unprecedented" and stated that an appeal has already been filed.
According to the defense, Saber Shushan is not a political activist but an ordinary low-educated worker who had expressed dissatisfaction with the president’s policies before his arrest. His brother said, “We already live in poverty, and now injustice and oppression have been added. We cannot believe this decision.”
In Tunisia, the death penalty is applied very rarely and has not been carried out for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, this decision caused widespread outrage and debate on social media. Many Tunisians and human rights activists saw it as an attempt to intimidate critics of the regime.
It is worth noting that in May of this year, the government of El Salvador also arrested the prominent lawyer Ruth Eleonora Lopez for criticizing President Nayib Bukele. These events have once again highlighted issues of criticizing state leaders and freedom of speech on social media worldwide.
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