Countries
1: Africa.
2: Americas.
3: Asia-Pacific.
4: Europe.
- 4.1: Belgium.
- 4.2: Bulgaria.
- 4.3: Cyprus.
- 4.4: Czech Republic.
- 4.5: Denmark.
- 4.6: Estonia.
  - 4.6.1: Introduction.
  - 4.6.2: List of Detention Sites .
  - 4.6.3: Map of Detention Sites.
  - 4.6.4: Country Links.
  - 4.6.5: Reference List.
- 4.7: Finland.
- 4.8: France.
- 4.9: Greece.
- 4.10: Hungary.
- 4.11: Ireland.
- 4.12: Italy.
- 4.13: Latvia.
- 4.14: Lithuania.
- 4.15: Luxembourg.
- 4.16: Malta.
- 4.17: Netherlands.
- 4.18: Norway.
- 4.19: Poland.
- 4.20: Portugal.
- 4.21: Romania.
- 4.22: Slovakia.
- 4.23: Slovenia.
- 4.24: Spain.
- 4.25: Sweden.
- 4.26: Switzerland.
- 4.27: Turkey.
- 4.28: Ukraine.
- 4.29: United Kingdom.
5: Middle East .

Estonia Profile

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: April 2010

Estonia Detention Profile

Reference List

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Aliens Act (Consolidated April 2005). 1993. RT I 2004, 58, 410. http://www.legaltext.ee/en/andmebaas/tekst.asp?loc=text&dok=X1019K13&keel=en&pg=1&ptyyp=RT&tyyp=X&query=aliens+act (accessed 15 March 2010)
Eber, Martin (Coordinator of Citizenship and Migration Unit, Integration and Migration Foundation). 2010. Interview by Aiko Holvikivi (Global Detention Project). Phone conversation 23 March 2010, Global Detention Project. Geneva, Switzerland.
Estonian Embassy in Washington. Web Site. “UN special rapporteur recognizes tolerance of Estonian society.” http://www.estemb.org/news/aid-1470 (accessed 23 March 2010)
Estonian Migration Foundation (MIG) & European Migration Network (EMN). 2008. The Organisation of Asylum and Migration Policies in Estonia. Tallinn: MIG & EMN.
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)
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). 2010. ECRI Report on Estonia (fourth monitoring cycle). 15 December 2009. Strasbourg: Council of Europe. http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Estonia/EST-CbC-IV-2010-003-ENG.pdf (accessed 15 March 2010)
Pihel, Marika (Chief Expert, Migration and Supervision Bureau, Police and Border Guard Board). 2010. Email message to Aiko Holvikivi (Global Detention Project). 30 March 2010. Global Detention Project. Geneva, Switzerland.
UN Human Rights Council (HRC). 2008. Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance, Follow-up to and Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Doudou Diène; Addendum, Mission to Estonia. A/HRC/7/19/Add.2. 17 March 2008. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,UNHRC,,EST,47e240a82,0.html (accessed 23 March 2010)
UN Human Rights Council (HRC). 2009. Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development. Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge G. Bustamante; Addendum, Communications Sent to Governments and Replies Received. A/HRC/11/7/Add.1. 20 May 2009. http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/133/38/PDF/G0913338.pdf?OpenElement (accessed 8 March 2010)
International Organization for Migration (IOM). Web site. Estonia. http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/activities/europe/nordic-and-baltic-countries/estonia (accessed 9 March 2010)
Mikolenko v. Estonia. 2010. European Court of Human Rights. Judgment of 8 October 2009. Application no. 10664/05.
Obligation to Leave and Prohibition on Entry Act (Consolidated June 2004). 1998. RT I 2004, 53, 369. http://www.legaltext.ee/en/andmebaas/tekst.asp?loc=text&dok=X30034K7&keel=en&pg=1&ptyyp=RT&tyyp=X&query=Obligation+to+Leave+ (accessed 15 March 2010)
Roots, Lehte. 2007. National Report Done by the Odysseus Network for the European Commission on the Implementation of the Directive on Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers in: [Estonia]. European Commission. http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/doc_centre/asylum/studies/docs/estonia_2007_en.pdf (accessed 8 March 2010)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 2009. 2008 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons. UNHCR. 16 June 2009. http://www.unhcr.org/4a375c426.html (accessed 9 March 2010)