What are your basic rights and duties upon your detention?
You have various rights and duties from the moment of your detention. You must be informed about these at the moment of your detention.
Rights
You have the right to:
- know why you were detained;
- inform the consular institution of your country about your detention;
- inform your close person and/or legal representative about your detention and the possibility to examine legality of the detention decision;
- request an assisted voluntary return and to contact non-governmental organizations (if you applied for asylum or expressed the intention to file such an application);
- contact the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
- an access to the facility for employees of the International Organisation for Migration and, other non-governmental or intergovernmental organizations with the consent of the facility director;
- appeal the lawfulness of your detention to the court (immediately);
- communicate in a language that you understand with the help of a state-paid translator, if necessary;
- receive self-paid legal aid during the whole detention process or state-paid legal aid in the appeal of your detention before the court if you cannot afford to pay for a lawyer yourself;
- read the materials related to your detention;
- receive necessary medical aid.
Duties
You have a duty to:
- identity yourself to the Slovak authorities
- tell the truth about yourself and your background
- comply with all their lawful requests