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Locked in limbo: the prolonged detention of stateless people in Europe must end now

Some stateless people are detained for months, even years, without any real prospect of their cases being resolved. This must change.

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Detention centre in Europe.

Detention centre gates. Photo: Greg Constantine for European Network on Statelessness.

A consensus is building in Europe that the current use of immigration detention is unsustainable, harmful, and, in many cases, unlawful.