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.
- 4.7: Finland.
- 4.8: France.
- 4.9: Greece.
- 4.10: Hungary.
- 4.11: Ireland.
- 4.12: Italy.
- 4.13: Latvia.
  - 4.13.1: Introduction.
  - 4.13.2: List of Detention Sites.
  - 4.13.3: Map of Detention Sites.
  - 4.13.4: Country Links.
  - 4.13.5: Reference List.
- 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 .

Quick Facts

Dedicated immigration detention centres: 1 (2010)

Capacity of dedicated facility: 50 (2007)

Max. length of detention: 20 months (2010)

Asylum Seekers: 36 (end 2008)

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Government Agencies

International Organisations

NGOs & Research Institutions

Media

Last updated: July 2010

Latvia Detention Profile

Map of "In Use" Detention Sites

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

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

Caritas Latvia. 2007. “Latvia,” in Jesuit Refugee Service (ed.). 2007. Civil Society Report on Administrative Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in Europe: Common Positions of JRS in Europe. Jesuit Refugee Service.
Caritas Latvia. 2010. “National Report: Latvia.” In Becoming Vulnerable in Detention: Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project). Jesuit Refugee Service-Europe. Brussels. June 2010.
Fiscalia General del Estado. 2010. Memoria 2010 del Fiscal de Sala Coordinador de Extranjeria. Ministerio del Justicia.
Latvian Centre of Human Rights and Ethnic Studies (LCHR). 2005. Who Can Detain You and on What Grounds? Brochure produced by the Latvian Centre of Human Rights and Ethnic Studies, financed by the European Community within the framework of the project “Monitoring Human Rights and Prevention of Torture in Closed Institutions: prisons, police cells and mental health care institutions in Baltic States.”
Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR). 2007a. Shadow Report to the UN Committee against Torture. Latvian Centre for Human Rights. October 2007.
Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA). Website b. “Statistics on Asylum Seekers.” OCMA. http://www.ocma.gov.lv/en/statistics/asylum.html (accessed 5 May 2010).
Puce, Ilvija. 2007. “Legal Norms of Detention and Legal Rights of Detainees in Latvia.” Speech delivered by Ilvija Puce, Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies.
Puce, I, and L. Gravere. 2006. Monitoring report on Closed Institutions in Latvia. Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR).