Brussels, 17/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - Member states cannot rely on the fact that there are no specialised facilities in a part of their territory to justify detaining third-country nationals in prison pending their removal and the same applies even if the third-country national concerned has given his consent to being accommodated in prison, ruled the European Court of Justice on Thursday 17 July in three joint cases (C-473/13, C-514/13 and C-474/13).
The three cases were referred to the...