Detention monitoring
fundamental rights perspective. The Commission’s findings and recommendations will be summarised in a consolidated report to the
attention of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) and will be
published in 2019.
ii. Facilities for the administrative detention orders issued under Foreign Nationals Act
F rambois and Favra (Geneva) Intercantonal Facilities for
administrative detention of foreign nationals14
During its February 2017 follow-up visit, the Commission noted
with satisfaction that many of the recommendations it issued in
2012 had already been implemented at the Frambois facility. All
cases of security-related placements are now recorded in a register
and various internal procedures have been formalised. The Commission also welcomed the detention regime in place at the Frambois facility, in particular because it does not create a prison-like
environment and thus reflects the nature of administrative detention under Foreign Nationals Act. The Commission was nevertheless of the view that the facility should ease its policy on the use of
mobile telephones and the internet.
Based on its visit in February 2017, the Commission considered that the Favra facility, despite its open detention regime, is
outdated and regretted that due to infrastructural issues the access
to outdoor activities is restricted. The Commission thus recommended measures in order to provide unrestricted access to outdoor
facilities. The Commission noted, however, that there are medium
term plans for closure of the Favra facility.
Letter to the Government Council of the Canton of Geneva on the follow-up visit of the National Commission for the
Prevention of Torture to the Frambois Intercantonal Facility, 13 February 2017, available in French, online at: https://www.
nkvf.admin.ch/dam/data/nkvf/Berichte/2017/favras-frambois/bericht-frambois.pdf, and Report to the Government
Council of the Canton of Geneva on the follow-up visit of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture to the
confined Favra Facility, 13 February 2017, available in French, online at: https://www.nkvf.admin.ch/dam/data/nkvf/
Berichte/2017/favras-frambois/bericht-farva.pdf.
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