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Author: Snyman, Gina

Title: Monitoring Immigration Detention in South Africa September 2010

Summary: LHR’s Detention Monitoring Programme has been monitoring the arrest, detention and deportation of foreign nationals at local detention centres, primarily the Lindela Holding Facility and the Musina Detention Centre (SMG), for the past decade. In certain instances, the organisation also intervenes in detentions occurring at police stations, prisons, or at the OR Tambo International Airport. The Detention Monitoring Programme operates mainly from LHR’s Johannesburg and Musina offices. LHR’s law clinics in Pretoria and Durban also assist asylum seekers who are detained at police stations or at the refugee reception offices (RROs). LHR is the only organisation that regularly visits Lindela and provides pro bono legal representation to detainees. Through these consultations, we are able to identify immigration trends and legal issues confronting detainees, as well as shifts in the policies of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the South African Police Services (SAPS). Our consultations with detainees also provide us with information about conditions at the facility and the treatment of detainees — an important window into the detention experience given the lack of any independent monitoring.

Details: Pretoria, South Africa: Lawyers for Human Rights, 2010. 48p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 1, 2011 at: http://www.lhr.org.za/sites/lhr.org.za/files/LHR_2010_Detention_Report.pdf

Year: 2010

Country: South Africa

URL: http://www.lhr.org.za/sites/lhr.org.za/files/LHR_2010_Detention_Report.pdf

Shelf Number: 123207

Keywords:
Illegal Aliens
Illegal Immigrants (South Africa)
Immigrant Detention