Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Tunisia (Ratification: 1959)

The Committee notes with interest that Act No. 99-89 of 2 August 1999 has amended section 13 of the Penal Code under which persons sentenced to imprisonment were forced to work. This means that persons sentenced to imprisonment in application of the provisions of the Labour Code on illegal strikes or in application of the provisions on freedom of the press, freedom of association and of gathering will no longer be subject to compulsory prison labour.