A court in Tunisia in charge of terrorism cases handed Tuesday death penalty to two people indicted for participation in a terror attack that occurred in 2020 near the US embassy in capital Tunis.
On March 6, 2020, two subsides blew themselves up near the US mission in the Tunisian capital.
Authorities believed the attackers targeted a security patrol.
Five security forces and one civilian were wounded in the attack.
One security personnel however later died of his injured.
The court charged the defendants with “complicity in murder, injury, damage to public and private property, possession of an explosive device and voluntary membership in a terrorist organization on Tunisian soil,” reports say.
Three others were respectively sentenced to life imprisonment, four years in prison and 3-year imprisonment.
Tunisia has been facing terror attack in the wake of the 2011 revolution.
Several attacks hit the country, with three terror attacks in 2015 which killed more than 70 people mostly foreign tourists.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Tunisia. Despite its legality, no executions have been carried out since 1990. Tunisia is classified as "Abolitionist in Practice."
There were at least 3 new death sentences handed down in Tunisia in 2021. There was believed to have been at least 89 people on death row in Tunisia at the end of 2021.
In September 2020, the President of Tunisia supported reinstating executions in the country, which was criticized by human rights organizations.
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