Quick Facts

Dedicated immigration detention centres: 1 (2010)

Length of detention: No limit

Pending asylum claims: 8 (end 2008)

Total number of detainees held in dedicated facility: 67 (2009)

Last updated: March 2010

Estonia Detention Profile

For more detailed information, see the complete List of Detention Sites.

Sources
(This is only a partial list. More detailed information is available upon request.)

Eber, Martin (Integration and Migration Foundation). 2010. Interview by Aiko Holvikivi (Global Detention Project). Phone conversation 23 March 2010, Global Detention Project. Geneva, Switzerland.
Estonian Refugee Council (ERC). 2007. "Estonia," in Civil Society Report on Administrative Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in Europe: Common Position of JRS in Europe. Jesuit Refugee Services-Europe, December 2007. http://detention-in-europe.org/images/stories/10%20nms%20report%20final.pdf (accessed 2 March 2010).
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). 2006. Third report on Estonia. 24 June 2005. Strasbourg: Council of Europe. http://hudoc.ecri.coe.int/XMLEcri/ENGLISH/Cycle_03/03_CbC_eng/EST-CbC-III-2006-1-ENG.pdf (accessed 15 March 2010).