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The paper describes how NGOs, lawyers' associations and civil society reacted to the suicide of a young man from Guinea while detained in Turin's Pre-Removal Detention Centre (CPR), where migrants are detained for the sole purpose of deportation. Deprivation of freedom without any criminal record entails a legal scandal, something that challenges the rule of law: the limitation of freedom is reserved to non-EU citizens who now come under the jurisdiction of lay judges (Justice of the Peace), despite decisions on personal freedom are exclusively handled by full professional judges. Furthermore, the legal ground for the detention of undocumented migrants is surprisingly fragile and fragmentary, often resorting to mere ministerial circulars where a law should be mandatory. Defying almost 25 years of indifference, silent acceptance and ignorance, the network of activists launched a campaign to shut the CPR down, publishing the Black Book on Turin's CPR and raising the public attention against the segregation of migrants through individual accounts and lived experiences.

This paper is a supplement to the International University College of Turin's September 2012 report Betwixt and Between: Turin's CIE. A human rights investigation into Turin's immigration detention centre, which considered the findings of an interview-based study of Turin's immigration detention centre in terms of international, European and Italian human rights and migration law. The Betwixt and Between report examined Turin's Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione (Turin's CIE) by considering both individual and systemic problems faced by detainees, their families and people who have direct contact with Turin's CIE in a professional or voluntary capacity. On 12 November 2012 the researchers met with the Director of Turin's CIE (Italian Red Cross – Military Section) and senior representatives from the Questura di Torino – Ufficio Immigrazione (Immigration Office) and Prefettura di Torino in order to conduct a lengthy interview about issues raised in theBe twixt and Between research study. This paper analyses the information received during this interview with the authorities in response to the allegations made by interviewees of the September 2012 Betwixt and Between report in relation to conditions of detention inside Turin's CIE and related judicial and legal processes.

The information contained in this document was produced to introduce university students to Italian and European migration law. Part I. Italian law on immigration detention. Part II. European Union law on immigration detention. Part III: International and Council of Europe human rights law. Glossary. Useful websites and articles on migration and immigration detention in Europe.

This report investigates the extent to which Italian, European and international human rights and migration law is applied in Turin's centro di identificazione ed espulsione (Turin's CIE) - an immigration detention centre in northern Italy. This study was motivated by the fact that a number of institutions and organisations at local, national and international level have expressed concern about the current praxis of administrative detention of irregular migrants in Italy. The inconsistency between the explicit and implicit aims of immigration detention centers is of particular concern because it gives rise to a situation that is a fertile ground for abuse, inefficiencies and shocking human rights violations. In order to evaluate the application of human rights law in Turin's CIE, the CIE Research Project considers both individual and systemic problems faced by detainees, their families and people who have direct contact with the centre in a professional or voluntary capacity. These problems are analysed in terms of the conditions of detention as well as the judicial and legal processes that surround immigration detention. Throughout the research a concerted attempt was made to give voice to the lived experience of interviewed migrants; an element which is unfortunately all too often missing from research on immigration in Italy. The research was limited to experiences of detention in Turin's CIE in the period January 2011 - June 2012 inclusive. As part of this research project, twenty-nine recorded interviews of between forty and ninety minutes were conducted with current and former immigration detainees and experienced lawyers, NGO workers, religious volunteers and a journalist. The interviews were semi structured and different but comparable interview forms were used with different categories of interviewees. These forms were designed in a manner that aimed to reveal information necessary to evaluate the application of civil and political rights, as well as economic, cultural and social rights. Moreover, in ...