Detention of foreign nationals under aliens legislation; (Read full CPT report) 23. The delegation visited, for the first time, the Bělá-Jezová Detention Centre for Foreigners, the only establishment of its kind in the Czech Republic. The Centre was opened in 200611 and is located in a forest, some five kilometres away from the nearest municipality. […]
Immigration detention
International Law and Migration Detention: Coding State Adherence to Norms
Final Report of the Global Detention Project to the Swiss Network for International Studies This is the final report of the Global Detention Project’s three-year academic project assessing the relevance of intentional human rights norms to migration-related detention, which was funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies. The project, which was initially launched by […]
Situation particulière des migrants irréguliers à San Marino (from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2013 visit to San Marino)
C. Situation particulière des migrants irréguliers; (Read full CPT report) 37. Pour la première fois lors d’une visite du CPT, la délégation a abordé la question dutraitement des migrants. Pour ce faire, elle a consulté des dossiers des forces de l’ordre –Gendarmerie et Police civile – concernant la prise en charge de groupes de migrants […]
On its border, new problems: EU efforts to externalise migration controls
In the early 2000s, after Spain shut down the migration route through its enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Melilla and Ceuta, desperate refugees and migrants began targeting Spain’s Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, using Mauritania as their new launching point. Spain responded by boosting naval patrols off the coast and building a […]
