According to international standards, detention in the asylum process is permissible. This is regulated by ExCom 44 of the executive committee. As you know, the executive committee is the governing body of UNHCR, which approves the budget of the organization, and also issues conclusions that are guidance, direction, on international protection to UNHCR. The executive committee...which, of course, Canada is a founding member.
There are situations for which detention is permissible for a period of time under certain circumstances, for situations that may need to be investigated with respect to identity, with respect to a situation where applicants, for instance, destroy their documentation, their identity documents.
So this is a system that is there to guarantee that a situation like the one you are referring to, in terms of criminality, may be assessed and analyzed. The alternative to detention is a mechanism that would also allow people who do not belong to the category of a possible threat, or the possible need to be investigated, to be allowed to be released in a situation as an alternative to closed detention.
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