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 .

Latvia Profile

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)

Last updated: July 2010

Latvia Detention Profile

Reference List

Asylum Law. 2002. Government of Latvia.
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.
Government Regulation on Forced Expulsion Order of Aliens and Stateless Persons. 2002. No. 175. 15 March 2002.
Government Regulation on the Order how Persons Cross the Border of the Republic of Latvia. No. 310. 10 July 2002.
Government Regulation on the Order of Forced Expulsion of Foreigners, their Travel Documents and Issuance Thereof. 2003. No. 212. 29 April 2003.
Government Regulation on the Order on How a Person, Whose Asylum Application has been Rejected, should be Expelled. No. 29. 20 January 2003.
International Organisation for Migration (IOM). 2004. Return Migration. Policies and Practices in Europe. IOM, Migration Management Services Department.
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. 2009. Policy Report on Migration and Asylum Situation in Latvia Reference Year 2009. European Migration Network.
Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA). Website a. “Statistics on Removal Orders and Return Decisions.” OCMA. http://www.ocma.gov.lv/en/statistics/removal.html (accessed 5 May 2010).
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).
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/pages/49c364c4d6.html (accessed 29 July 2009).
United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT). 2008. Consideration of Reports Submitted by states Parties Under Article 19 of the Convention: conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture. CAT/C/LVA/CO/2. 19 February 2008.