Tunis

Al Wardia (El Ouardia) Reception and Orientation Centre

Tunisia

Status

In use

2025

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Borders & Foreigners Department

Management: Ministry of Interior (Governmental)

Detains: Asylum seekers (administrative), Unaccompanied minors, Adult women, Adult men, Accompanied minors, Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
100
24

30 November 2019

YES

2019

Tunisia

2,955

Refugees

9,620

Asylum Applications

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FACILITY NAMES
Al Wardia (El Ouardia) Reception and Orientation Centre
Location

Country: Tunisia

City & Region: Tunis, Africa

Latitude, Longitude: 36.81881, 10.16596

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
In use
2020
In use
2019
In use
2015
In use
2013
In use
2011
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2015
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2011
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Reception and Orientation Centre (Centre d'accueil et d'orientation)
2015
Management
Management
Type
Year
Ministry of Interior
Governmental
2013
Custodial Authorities
Agency
Ministry
Ministry type
Year
Borders & Foreigners Department
Ministry of the Interior
Interior or Home Affairs
2013
Foreign Support
Foreign Financing
Country/Entity
Offshore detention
Country/Entity
Year
Yes
European Union, Italy
2021

DETAINEES

Demographics

Unaccompanied minors

2025

Adult women

2025

Adult men

2025

Accompanied minors

2025

Adult men

2012

Adult women

2012

Accompanied minors

2012

Unaccompanied minors

2012
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2025

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2015

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2015
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2025

Accompanied children

2025

Unaccompanied children

2025

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 100

2012
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
24
30 November 2019
Reports of Detainee Overpopulation at Facility

Yes

2019

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2013

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2025
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2019
2019
2019
2015
2015
2015
2015

CARCERAL INDICATORS

External Security Regime

Secure

2011

STAFF

Mistreatment Reports

Yes

"Reportedly substandard and inhuman conditions in detention facilities, particularly the Ouardia Reception and Orientation Centre in Tunis, for migrants and asylum‑seekers, which have a disproportionate impact on women and children, and reports of human rights violations perpetrated by law enforcement officials against arbitrarily detained migrants, including excessive use of force, torture and ill-treatment;"

3

December

2025

2025

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2012
Age Segregation

Yes

2012
Legal Segregation

No

2012

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

Overall assessment of facility health care provision

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2025

MONITORING & ACCESS

Monitors & Civil Society Access
Access?
Type of Institution
Obsv. Date
Yes
International or regional human rights mechanisms
2025

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