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Seychelles Immigration Detention

Quick Facts

International migrants (2015): 12,800

Centres List

No detention centres data available

Statistics Expand all

A. Detention, expulsion, and incarceration statistics

735

Criminal prison population

2014

Criminal prison population

Number	Observation Date
735	2014
International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). Undated website. "World Prison Brief." http://www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief

7.5

Percentage of foreign prisoners

2014

Percentage of foreign prisoners

Percentage	Observation Date
7.5	2014
International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). Undated website. "World Prison Brief." http://www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief

799

Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)

2014

Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)

Number	Observation Date
799	2014
International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). Undated website. "World Prison Brief." http://www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief

B. Demographics and immigration-related statistics

96,000

Population

2015

Population

Number	Observation Date
96,000	2015
United Nations Population Fund, State of World Population, http://www.unfpa.org/fr/world-population-dashboard

12,800

International migrants

2015

International migrants

Number	Observation Date
12,800	2015
International Migration, 2015, Wall Chart, UN Population, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/migration/migration-wallchart-2015.shtml

13.3

International migrants as a percentage of the population

2015

International migrants as a percentage of the population

Percentage	Observation Date
13.3	2015
International Migration, 2015, Wall Chart, UN Population, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/migration/migration-wallchart-2015.shtml

0

Refugees

2016

Refugees

Number	Observation Date
0	2016
UNHCR Population Statistics http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/persons_of_concern
25	2015
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Country information: Statistical snapshot. http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

0

Stateless persons

2016

Stateless persons

Number	Observation Date
0	2016
UNHCR Population Statistics http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/persons_of_concern

Domestic Law Expand all

A. LEGAL TRADITION

Legal tradition Show sources

Name	Observation Date
Civil law	2017
World Legal Systems. University of Ottawa. http://www.juriglobe.ca/
Common law	2017
World Legal Systems. University of Ottawa. http://www.juriglobe.ca/

B. LAWS AND REGULATIONS

C. GROUNDS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE IMMIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

D. CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRATION-RELATED OFFENCES

E. LENGTH OF DETENTION

F. PROCEDURAL STANDARDS

G. NON-CUSTODIAL MEASURES (ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION)

H. VULNERABLE PERSONS

I. MANDATORY DETENTION

J. EXPEDITED REMOVAL AND RE-ENTRY BAN

K. COVID-19 UPDATES

International Law Expand all

1. Relevant international treaties and date of ratification

International treaties Show sources

Name	Ratification Year
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations	1979
UN Treaty Collection
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	1978
UN Treaty Collection
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	1992
UN Treaty Collection
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	1992
UN Treaty Collection
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	1992
UN Treaty Collection
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	1992
UN Treaty Collection
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child	1990
UN Treaty Collection
ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families	1994
UN Treaty Collection
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	2009
UN Treaty Collection
ICPED, International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	2017
UN Treaty Collection
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees	1980
UN Treaty Collection
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children	2004
UN Treaty Collection
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	2004
UN Treaty Collection

Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified

13/19

Individual complaints procedure Show sources

Name	Acceptance Year
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966	1992
UN Treaty Collection
CEDAW, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1999	2011
UN Treaty Collection
CAT, declaration under article 22 of the Convention	2001
UN Treaty Collection

Ratio of complaints procedures accepted Show sources

Number	Observation Date
3/9	2017
UN Treaty Collection

2. Regional treaties, regulations, and directives

Regional legal instruments Show sources

Name	Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights	1992
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Ratification Table: African Charter on Human and People's Rights, http://www.achpr.org/instruments/achpr/ratification/
ACRWC, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child	1992
Ratification Table: African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, http://www.achpr.org/instruments/child/ratification/.
APRW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)	2006
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Ratification Table: Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, http://www.achpr.org/instruments/women-protocol/ratification/

3. Bilateral/Multilateral agreements linked to readmissions

4. Non treaty-based international human rights mechanisms

Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review Show sources

Recomendation Issued	Year Issued	Observation Date
No	2011	2017
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review* Seychelles, A/HRC/18/7, 11 July 2011, https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/document/seychelles/session_11_-_may_2011/ahrc187seychellese.pdf
No	2016	2017
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review* Seychelles, A/HRC/32/13, 8 April 2016, https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/document/seychelles/session_24_-_january_2016/a-hrc-32-13-e.pdf

Institutions Expand all

A. Governing structures

B. Institutions responsible for immigration detention

C. Detention monitoring institutions

D. Outsourcing and privatisation

E. Expenditures

F. Foreign sources of funding for detention operations

Socio Economic Data Expand all

A. Economics and Development Indicators

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD) Show sources

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD)	Observation Date
15,564	2014
The World Bank. GDP Per Capita (current US$).

Remittances to the country Show sources

Remittances to the country (in millions USD)	Observation Date
14	2014
International Migration, 2015, Wall Chart, UN Population, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/migration/migration-wallchart-2015.shtml

Net official development assistance (ODA) (in millions USD) Show sources

Net official development assistance (ODA) (in USD)	Observation Date
9.7	2014
OECD - DAC, Net ODA in millions USD, 2014, http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats

Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP) Show sources

Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)	UNDP four-tiered ranking	Observation Date
64	High	2015
Human Development Reports

B. Attitudes and Perceptions