Tunisia-AMT calls for the vaccination of judges and denounces the non-application of agreements concluded with the sector

The Association of Tunisian Magistrates (AMT), displayed concern about the interruption of judicial work and urgent issues because of the delay in the vaccination of the judicial and administrative framework in the courts as well as the attorneys, bailiffs and experts.

In a press release published yesterday, Thursday, June 3, 2021, the AMT called on the administration to respect what was declared in its vaccination strategy and the deal reached with the sector, particularly to vaccinate the agents of fundamental services, to guarantee the continuity of justice services and in support of the national pandemic prevention effort.

It further stressed the necessity not to count age as a criterion in the face of the grown risk of the virus spreading in overcrowded courts in which the health protocol was, in addition, not implemented as it should have being.

The AMT called for providing courts and offices with plexiglass protection as has been done in other administrations, asking the government to meet its commitments and to pay the permanence bonus given to judges of the public prosecution, judges of instruction and the criminal chain, and to pay the bonuses of all judges who have been on duty since the publication of Decree No. 654 of 2019.

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