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Place of compulsory detention
Places of compulsory detention - places of administrative detention and administrative arrest established by law; places of disciplinary arrest; places of pre-trial detention for suspects and accused persons (preliminary detention centers of the criminal executive system and preliminary detention centers of the federal security service, temporary detention centers for suspects and accused persons of internal affairs agencies and border agencies of the federal security service); institutions of the criminal executive system and preliminary detention centers of the federal security service carrying out criminal punishments in the form of deprivation of liberty and compulsory labor (hereinafter referred to as institutions carrying out punishments); disciplinary military units, guardhouses; temporary detention centers for underage offenders of internal affairs agencies; closed-type educational and upbringing institutions; special institutions of the federal executive authority in in the field of internal affairs or its territorial body, designated for the accommodation of foreign citizens and stateless persons subject to administrative expulsion from the territory of the Russian Federation or deportation, or foreign citizens and stateless persons subject to transfer by the Russian Federation to a foreign state in accordance with an international treaty of the Russian Federation on readmission, or foreign citizens and stateless persons accepted by the Russian Federation from a foreign state in accordance with an international treaty of the Russian Federation on readmission but who do not have lawful grounds for presence (residence) in the Russian Federation; forensic psychiatric expert medical organizations; medical organizations providing psychiatric care in inpatient conditions, general type, specialized type or specialized type with intensive observation1.
Federal Law No. 76-FZ of June 10, 2008 "On Public Oversight of the Ensuring of Human Rights in Places of Compulsory Detention and on Providing Assistance to Persons Deprived of Liberty," as amended on January 1, 2026, Article 2, Subparagraph 2 // RSZ RF. 2008. No. 24. Art. 2789. ↩