| Country | Syria |
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| Ministry responsible |
Ministry of the Interior
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| Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners) | 10 599
at 2004 (United Nations 9th Survey. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that in December 2023 at least 156,457 people, including 5,235 children and 10,199 women were in detention centres or forcibly disappeared (U.S. State Department human rights report).)
|
|---|---|
| Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population) | 60
based on an estimated national population of 17.68 million at mid-2004 (United Nations)
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| Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 50.5%
(2004)
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| Female prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 7.4%
(of convicted prisoners, 2004)
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| Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 7.3%
(of convicted prisoners, 2004)
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| Number of establishments / institutions | 35
(2004)
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| Official capacity of prison system | 16 161
(2004)
|
| Occupancy level (based on official capacity) | 65.6%
(2004)
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| Prison population trend (year, prison population total, prison population rate) |
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Female prison population: trend
The table below gives an indication of the trend in the female prison population. The final row shows the latest figures available.
It consists of the number of female prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that female prisoners constituted on that day.
The final column shows the female prison population rate per 100,000 of the national population.
SYRIA
Year | Number of | Percentage | Female prison |
2003 | 497* | 6.7%* | 2.9* |
2004 | 507* | 7.4%* | 2.9* |
*These figures relate only to convicted prisoners. Full figures are not available.
The number of female prisoners fluctuates and so the above figures give an indication of the trend but the picture is inevitably incomplete.
The female prison population rate is calculated on the basis of the national population total. All national population figures are inevitably estimates but the estimates used in the World Prison Brief are based on official national figures, United Nations figures or figures from other recognised international authorities.
(If the rate were calculated on the basis of the number of females in the national population it would of course be approximately double the figure in the final column.)