Asylum-seekers should never be detained. The ongoing recast of the Reception Directive gives the possibility to Member States to administratively detain asylum-seekers in many different cases. Following an initiative from the ECRE network, many organisations have denounced this evolution and have provided the European authorities with a list of “minimum” guarantees which the Directive should entail should detention be still considered necessary. The Migreurop network wishes to remind that several texts may be referred to by Member States which already strictly regulate the detention of persons seeking international protection, such as the Conclusion n° 44 (XXXVII) of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner on Refugees on the Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers, and Recommendation REC(2003)5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on measures of detention of asylum seekers.
Read the full call to the European Parliament here
