37 | PROTECTING STATELESS PERSONS FROM ARBITRARY DETENTION IN BULGARIA 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 Decision No.212164-54 of 21 June 2016 to provide access to public information, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria Article 44, paragraph 9 of LFRB Ibid. See, for example, Valeria Ilareva, Bulgaria’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers, Forced Migration Review, issue 29, December 2007, page 60-61; “Immigration Detention in International Law and Practice. In search of solutions to the challenges faced in Bulgaria”, Statewatch, 2008; Имиграционното задържане в международното право и практика, сп. Правата на човека, Фондация „Български адвокати за правата на човека”, бр.1/2008, стр.5-38 (journal Human Rights published by the Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation); Ilareva, V., Arbitrariness regarding Access to the Asylum Procedure in Bulgaria. Information Note. 2 January 2012, https://lcrien.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/information_note_acces s.pdf; AIDA Bulgaria Country Report: Fourth Update, October 2015, http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/bulgaria English language News Report on the findings of the Ombudsman is available at BIRN, Mariya Cheresheva, Bulgaria Evades Ban on Detaining Child Refugees, 9 March 2016, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bulgaria-evades-ban-ondetaining-child-refugees-03-08-2016 (last visited on 8 July 2016) Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria, Annual Report as a National Preventive Mechanism.2015, February 2016, page 22, available at http://www.ombudsman.bg/pictures/file/Report_NPM_2015_Final_ Edited.pdf (last visited on 8 July 2016) Ibid., page 22 Case No.5406/2016 before the Sofia City Administrative Court (SCAC) Barna Maria, Gábor Gyulai, with contributions from project partners, Access of Torture Survivor and Traumatised Asylum-Seekers to Rights and Care in Detention. From Torture to Detention, 2016, pages 26-27, Accessed on 18 June 2016 at http://farbg.eu/wpcontent/uploads/3.2.-EN-From_torture_to_detention.pdf See, e.g., CPT, Report to the Bulgarian Government on the visit to Bulgaria carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 18 to 29 October 2010, Strasbourg, 15 March 2012, paragraph 36, available at http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/bgr/2012-09-infeng.htm ; Vankova, Zvezda, Independent Custody Visiting in Special Centres for Temporary Accommodation of Foreigners Operated by the Ministry of Interior between January and June 2011. Consolidated Report, 2012, Open Society Institute Sofia, http://www.osf.bg/cyeds/downloads/busmanci_ENG.pdf ; Barna Maria, Gábor Gyulai, with contributions from project partners, 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 Access of Torture Survivor and Traumatised Asylum-Seekers to Rights and Care in Detention. From Torture to Detention, 2016, Accessed on 18 June 2016 at http://farbg.eu/wp-content/uploads/3.2.-ENFrom_torture_to_detention.pdf Vankova, Zvezda, Independent Custody Visiting in Special Centres for Temporary Accommodation of Foreigners Operated by the Ministry of Interior between January and June 2011. Consolidated Report, 2012, Open Society Institute Sofia, http://www.osf.bg/cyeds/downloads/busmanci_ENG.pdf, page 33 Barna Maria, Gábor Gyulai, with contributions from project partners, Access of Torture Survivor and Traumatised Asylum-Seekers to Rights and Care in Detention. From Torture to Detention, 2016, page 28 Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria, Annual Report as a National Preventive Mechanism.2015, February 2016, page 21, available at http://www.ombudsman.bg/pictures/file/Report_NPM_2015_Final_ Edited.pdf (last visited on 8 July 2016) Ilareva, Valeria, Solitary Confinement of Immigration Detainees, Silesian Journal of Legal Studies, Vol.2/2010, pp.45-57; Ilareva, Valeria, Bulgaria’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers, Forced Migration Review, issue 29, December 2007, page 60-61; “Immigration Detention in International Law and Practice. In search of solutions to the challenges faced in Bulgaria”, Statewatch, 2008; Имиграционното задържане в международното право и практика, сп. Правата на човека, Фондация „Български адвокати за правата на човека”, бр.1/2008, стр.5-38 (journal Human Rights published by the Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation) Judgment No.164/07 January 2016 of the Supreme Administrative Court in case No.973/2015, available at http://www.sac.government.bg/court22.nsf/d038edcf49190344c2 256b7600367606/0b4635e86e019a3dc2257f29003cf3a0?Open Document (last visited on 10 July 2016) In Bulgarian the name of the Ordinance is ‘Наредба № Iз-1201 от 01.06.2010 година за реда за временно настаняване на чужденци, за организацията и дейността на специалните домове за временно настаняване на чужденци’ European Network on Statelessness, Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention: A Regional Toolkit for Practitioners (2015), page 28 In September 2016, this would be between 2,50 and 5 Euro, as 1 Bulgarian leva is 0,51 Euro Study interview with a senior expert from the NCTHB, which took place on 22 April 2016