The Court of Appeal has enjoined Belgium to have the Tunisian repatriate since 2022. In July 2023, after ten years spent in extremely difficult conditions of detention, Nizar Trabelsi was acquitted by an American federal jury. However, he is still incarcerated in isolation.
In a scathing judgment, consulted by the Belga news agency, the Court of Appeal castigates “the total absence of any initiative aimed at carrying out the judgment of January 30, 2025” on the part of the Belgian state, allowing to “legitimately fear that the State, which produces (…) No serious element establishing that it would be prevented (from executing) this decision, prefers to pay the on -the -attack on its obligations”.
The Court is also concerned about the state of health of Nizar Trabelsi, still incarcerated in the United States. “It faces a serious risk of being deported to a country where he risks undergoing inhuman and degrading treatments, even worse,” said the court of appeal, referring to the fact that US law authorizes the government to send it to any country that will accept it.
The courtyard therefore considers that inflicting requirements, not limited in time and not capped, “constitutes the only way to discourage the Belgian state, which abolished the death penalty in 1996, to resolve to pay Nizar Trabelsi a sinister and cynical annuity. condemn “, still criticizes the Brussels Court of Appeal.
