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Italian Constitutional Court Says Migrant Detention Regulations Violate Personal Liberty

The court’s verdict demands lawmakers enact precise legislation to protect migrants’ rights in detention centers

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Overview

  • In judgment 96/2025 the court found current CPR rules lack the absolute legal basis required for restrictions on personal freedom
  • Judges noted that confinement in repatriation centers constitutes a physical subjection to state power with direct impacts on individual liberty
  • The court declared further constitutional legitimacy challenges inadmissible and stressed that only Parliament can fill the legislative void
  • It criticized the extensive delegation of key procedural safeguards to secondary regulations and discretionary administrative acts as legally inadequate
  • The Interior Ministry has already begun drafting primary legislation to implement clear, constitutionally compliant rules for migrant detention