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| Ellebæk Institution for Detained Foreigners |
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The Danish Integration Minister Soren Pind has been asked to explain why asylum seekers with mental disorders and torture victims and trafficked women are imprisoned indefinitely in Ellebæk Institution for Detained Foreigners. Amnesty International, Danish Refugee Council and Danish Red Cross asked him to ensure that Denmark will not put vulnerable people in prison and that the detention of asylum seekers is made only in extraordinary situations.
Amnesty International, the Danish Refugee Council and the Danish Red Cross have called for rejected asylum seekers to be detained only in exceptional circumstances and of they are that they can live in open detention centers.
Amnesty International's member magazine in February revealed that the Danish authorities routinely detained vulnerable groups. They say that this may conflict the European Convention on Human Rights Article three, which prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment. The European Court of Human Rights in a series of judgments has criticized countries for imprisoning vulnerable groups among asylum seekers with regard to Articles three as well as five (right to liberty and security).
Detention is happening because the immigration authorities and police say that there is a danger that asylum seekers will go underground while their cases are dealt with or if they are due to be deported. Amnesty has documented that the legal system only in extremely rare cases, follows the statutory requirement to use less coercive measures than detention - including reporting duties to the police.
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