Tunisia: four defendants sentenced to death for the assassination of opponent Belaïd in 2013. A total of 23 people were charged with the shooting in his car and in front of his home on February 6, 2013.
Sentences of 2 to 120 years' imprisonment were also handed down for other defendants, while five individuals were acquitted even though they remain accused in other cases. These two assassinations shocked Tunisia and constituted a turning point for this country, cradle of the Arab Spring, then in the midst of a democratic transition.