Federal Act
on Foreign Nationals and Integration
(Foreign Nationals and Integration Act, FNIA)¹

¹ The can­tons shall en­sure that a per­son in Switzer­land des­ig­nated by the de­tain­ee is no­ti­fied. De­tain­ees may com­mu­nic­ate with their leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ives as well as with their fam­ily mem­bers and con­su­lar au­thor­it­ies both verbally and in writ­ing.

² De­ten­tion shall take place in de­ten­tion fa­cil­it­ies in­ten­ded for the en­force­ment of pre­par­at­ory de­ten­tion, de­ten­tion pending de­port­a­tion and co­er­cive de­ten­tion. If this not pos­sible in ex­cep­tion­al cases, in par­tic­u­lar be­cause of in­suf­fi­cient ca­pa­city, de­tained for­eign na­tion­als must be ac­com­mod­ated sep­ar­ately from per­sons in pre-tri­al de­ten­tion or who are serving a sen­tence.²³³

³ The needs of vul­ner­able per­sons, un­ac­com­pan­ied minors and fam­il­ies with minor chil­dren must be taken in­to ac­count in the de­ten­tion ar­range­ments.²³⁴

⁴ The de­ten­tion ar­range­ments are oth­er­wise gov­erned by:

a.

Art­icle 16 para­graph 3 and 17 of Dir­ect­ive 2008/115/EC²³⁵ for re­turns to a third coun­try;

b.

Art­icle 28 para­graph 4 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013²³⁶ for Dub­lin trans­fers;

c.²³⁷

in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 37 of the Con­ven­tion of 20 Novem­ber 1989²³⁸ on the Rights of the Child.²³⁹

⁵ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may or­der that the op­por­tun­it­ies for de­tain­ees to have con­tact with spe­cif­ic per­sons or groups either dir­ectly or via third parties be re­stric­ted if:

a.

the per­son con­cerned ac­cord­ing to find­ings made by the po­lice or pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies poses a spe­cif­ic risk to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity; and

b.

oth­er meas­ures have failed or are not avail­able.²⁴⁰

⁶ If the re­stric­tions un­der para­graph 5 prove in­ad­equate to counter the risk to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may or­der sol­it­ary con­fine­ment.²⁴¹