A 56 year-old Tunisian man was sentenced to death last week after he was convicted of expressing a negative opinion about President Kais Saied in a series of Facebook posts, according to a statement by Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa regional director Heba Morayef.
“This verdict, which sentences a man to death for peaceful dissent on Facebook, represents a significant escalation and an outrageous assault on human rights. The Tunisian authorities must immediately quash Saber Chouchen’s conviction and release him without delay,” said Morayef on a sentence out of convicted felon US President Trump’s wet dreams. Chouchen is said to be a disabled construction worker and father of three who only works occasionally after being injured in a job site accident some time ago and wasn’t really all that savvy with the internet and politics.
“Most of the content he shared was copied from other pages, and some posts received no engagement at all,” Chouchen’s lawyer Oussama Bouthelja wrote in a Facebook post. “In court, he said his intent was to draw authorities’ attention to his difficult living conditions, not to incite unrest.”
It’s not clear when the lawyer will face trial for questioning the justice system on Facebook.