Fact sheet: Human rights challenges for an exit centre on Lindholm Island
Setting up an exit centre for deported foreign nationals on an uninhabited island raises a number of human-rights challenges.
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Foreign nationals with no prospect of leaving Denmark within a foreseeable future may not be deprived of their liberty.
However, long-term restrictions on their freedom of movement and right to privacy can, with time become uproportional and also develop into degrading treatment, which is illegal pursuant to the European Convention on Human Rights.
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