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Legal instruments & key provisions
| Legal instrument | Key provision |
|---|---|
| Act on the obligation to provide information, etc. when foreign nationals are deprived of liberty (Lag [1989:152] om underrättelseskyldighet m.m. när utlänningar är berövade friheten) | Foreign nationals are entitled to have the consulate or embassy of their country informed of their arrest. Detainees must, without delay, be informed of their right to request that the consulate be informed of the deprivation of liberty and of their possibilities of having communications to the consulate forwarded. If a foreign national has been deprived of liberty on suspicion of a criminal offence, such information must be provided in writing in a language the detainee understands. The consul of the detainee's country of origin shall be given an opportunity to visit, to converse and correspond, and to assist in the exercise of the detainee's rights. This applies if the detainee does not oppose it. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
| Year | Recommendation | Report |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | After a series of inspections in 2017, then Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman Elisabeth Rynning found that detainees were still in significantly worse conditions than those placed in the Migration Agency’s detention centre. During the inspections of five remand prisons, it emerged that there were detainees who had been placed in remand prison from about a week up to a year and a half. In some cases, a migration detainee who was placed in remand prison could be locked in their resident room 23 hours a day. […] The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman decided to initiate an investigation of migration detainees placed with the Prison and Probation Service, and the starting point for the investigation was primarily to shed light on the situation of so-called security placed detainee. | Report details |