Tunisia

Capital city — Tunis

Country population
11,935,764
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2021
/ The World Bank
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
196
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06/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Semi-presidential democracy
Human Development Index
0.74
(95/188)
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2020
/ [Human Development Report, United Nations Development Program (PNUD)](PNUD, Rapport sur le développement humain
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
5
i
2020
/ The World Bank)
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Prisons are admin…
Total number of prisoners
23,484
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23/09/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Prison density
126.4 %
The prisons hold…
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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
32
Facilities are or…
i
2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2013
Female prisoners
3.3 %
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01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0.2 %
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01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
54.9 %
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01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no, but suspended in practice
The death penalty…

Contributor(s)Avocats sans frontières / independent experts

Ministry of Justice, INPT, Council of Europe, Guide du prisonnier, November 2019 (in French)
Ministry of Justice, INPT, Council of Europe, Manuel du droit pénitentiaire tunisien, November 2019 (in French)
Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Concluding observations on the third periodic reports of Tunisia, 9 June 2017
Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Visit to Tunisia undertaken from 11 to 14 April 2016: observations and recommendations addressed to the national preventive mechanism, 11 August 2017
ASF, Lutte contre la surpopulation carcérale en Tunisie, (link in French), septembre 2019
ASF, Detention in Tunisia: Sanctions That Go Beyond Deprivation of Liberty, 2015
OMCT Tunisie, Rapport Annuel 2018, (link in French), 2019
OMCT Tunisie, Le CAT pour toi et moi, (link in French), June 2018
Jean-Marie Delarue, OMCT Tunisie, Rapport relatif à la mise en œuvre d’un dispositif de réclamations dans les prisons de Tunisie, (link in French), January 2015

Bouagga Yasmine, “Pas de révolution dans les prisons: réformes et inerties dans le système répressif de l’après Ben Ali”, in Vincent Geisser and Amin Allal (dir.), Tunisie: une démocratisation au-dessus de tout soupçon?, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2018, p. 205-228 (in French).
Bouagga Yasmine. “Prison escape and its political imaginary in times of political crisis: Tunisia, 2011–2016“. Martin, Tomas Max and Chantraine, Gilles. Prison breaks: towards a sociology of escape, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.143-168, 2018, 978-3-319-64357-1.