Ahead of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture’s (CPT) visit to Ireland later this year, the GDP has submitted information to the committee regarding the country’s detention of non-citizens. Noting concerns such as the country’s continued use of prisons to hold immigration detainees, the lack of legal safeguards and procedural guarantees for persons detained at Dublin Airport, inadequate provision of detention statistics, and the uncertainty surrounding the intended use of the country’s new detention facility, our submission includes various suggestions that the CPT should address during its visit. In particular, the GDP urges the committee to determine the intended use of the new detention centre, to assess the conditions that immigration detainees face when confined in prisons and police stations, and to call on authorities to release statistics regarding the number of detainees placed in criminal facilities. Read more.
