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Organic Law n° 2014-17 relating to the provisions relating to the transitional justice and affairs related to the period going from 17Dec10 to 28Feb11


Organic Law n° 2014-17 dated 12 June 2014, relating to the provisions relating to the transitional justice and affairs related to the period going from 17 December 2010 to 28 February 2011 |1|.

In the name of the People,

The National Constituent Assembly having adopted,

The President of the Republic enacts the following organic law:

Article one - Are not criminally responsible, the authors of the made facts, in order to realize and make the revolution successful, during the period going from 17 December 2010 to 28 February 2011.

Enjoys the amnesty, any person having been condemned, for committing one of the facts stated during the determined period, by a judgment passed in force of judged thing. A certificate is delivered to him by the generals attorney at the courts of appeal, each one in its respective jurisdiction.

Art. 2 - Attacks having generated the martyrs and wounded of the revolution are considered as violations, serious within the meaning of articles 3 and 8 of the organic law n° 2013-53 dated 24 December 2013 relating to the establishment of transitional justice and its organization.

Art. 3 - In the event of transmission of the file to the public prosecutor by the authority of truth and dignity, in accordance with article 42 of the organic law n° 2013-53 dated 24 December 2013 relating to the establishment of transitional justice and its organization, the public prosecutor shall automatically send them to the specialized jurisdictional chambers mentioned in article 8 of the same organic law.

Upon their sending to the specialized chambers by the public prosecutor, these files have priority regardless the stage of the procedure.

Art. 4 - The Head of Government shall take the decrees provided for by the organic law n° 2013-53 dated 24 December 2013 relating to the establishment of transitional justice and its organization, within a maximum deadline of four months as from the date of the law herein.

The organic law herein shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia and implemented as law of the State.

Tunis, 12 June 2014.

The President of the Republic
Mohamed Moncef Marzougui


[Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia, No. 48, 17 June 2014, p. 481. Official translation.]


Notes:

1. Preparatory works:
Discussion and adoption by the National Constituent Assembly during its session held on 2 June 2014. [Back]


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