Tunisia

Capital city — Tunis

Country population
11,600,000
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2020
/ Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Program (PNUD)
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
195
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12/2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Semi-presidential democracy
Human Development Index
0.739
(91/188)
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2020
/ Human Development Report, United Nations Development Program (PNUD)
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
3
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2017
/ Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Program (PNUD)
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Prisons are admin…
Total number of prisoners
23,113
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01/01/2019
/ Ministry of Justice, INPT, CoE, “Manuel du droit pénitentiaire tunisien”, November 2019, p. 13.
Prison density
114 %
The statistical d…
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19/04/2021
/ La Presse
Total number of prison facilities
27
Facilities are or…
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2018
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2013
Female prisoners
2.9 %
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01/01/2019
/ Ministry of Justice, INPT, CoE, "Manuel du droit pénitentiaire tunisien", November 2019, p. 39.
Incarcerated minors
0.2 %
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01/01/2019
/ Ministry of Justice, INPT, CoE, "Manuel du droit pénitentiaire tunisien", November 2019, p. 39.
Percentage of untried prisoners
52.16 %
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04/03/2019
/ The General Directorate of Prisons and Rehabilitation, quoted in Lawyers without Borders, "Campaign against overcrowding in prisons in Tunisia", September 2019, p. 2.
Death penalty is abolished
no, but suspended in practice
The death penalty…

Contributor(s)Avocats sans frontières / independent experts

ASF - Lawyers without Borders
DGPR - Directorate General of Prisons and Rehabilitation
INPT - National Body for the Prevention of Torture (Instance nationale de prévention de la torture)
JEP - Sentence Enforcement Judge (Juge d’exécution des peines)
LGBTI - Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex
LTDH - Tunisian Human Rights League (Ligue tunisienne des droits de l’homme)
MNP - National Preventive Mechanism (Mécanisme national de prévention)
PNUD - United Nations Development Program (Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement)
OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture (Organisation mondiale contre la torture)
CAT - United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment of Punishment (Convention des Nations Unies contre la torture et autres peines et traitements inhumains ou dégradants)
SPT - Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Sous-comité pour la prévention de la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants)