Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
REVIEW OF STATES. PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES RELATING TO DETENTION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, concerned about the increased use of detention and the failure of some states to implement effective procedural protections for detained asylum seekers, initiated this comparative examination of the detention procedures of states. The review is directed primarily at the legal procedures governing detention of asylum seekers and in particular at the absence or existence of measures such as judicial review, limits on the length of detention, periodic review, and legal representation, that might help to prevent arbitrary detention in individual cases.
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