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
- 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 state-paid (or on your request self-paid) legal aid provided by the refugee counsellors
- read the materials related to your detention
- receive necessary medical aid
Duties
You have the duty to:
- identity yourself to the Slovenian authorities
- tell the truth about yourself and your background
- comply with all their lawful requests
Read more about the duties of asylum seekers in Article 89 of the International Protection Act.