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Prague-Ruzyně Airport Reception Centre

Aviatická 1017/2, 161 00 Praha 6 - Ruzyně · Prague

Works like detention, not accommodation

Officially this is a reception centre. It is listed with detention because SUZ calls it a closed-type facility and AIDA calls it a de facto detention centre with no access to outside facilities. Its 36 places are not counted as accommodation anywhere on this site.

Closed reception centre in the transit zone of Václav Havel Airport Prague, run by SUZ, for newly arrived applicants who fly into Czechia. SUZ calls it a closed-type facility and AIDA a de facto detention centre, so it is listed here with detention and not with accommodation. AIDA lists 36 places for 2025 and no one counted there at the end of 2024.

Key facts

Type: Airport reception centre (works like detention)
Operator: Refugee Facilities Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (SUZ)
Address: Aviatická 1017/2, 161 00 Praha 6 - Ruzyně, Prague
Capacity: 36 places (as at 2025)AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): table of capacity for 2025, with data from SUZ.
People counted there: 0 (as at 31 December 2024)AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): occupancy at the end of 2024. Figures for 2025 were not available when it was written, so this is not a current headcount.
Arrivals in 2025: 39 foreigners arrived at the centre (SUZ Annual Report 2025).
Status: In use (status as at: 4 October 2026)Source: the SUZ page for this facility, accessed on the date shown.
Opening: Not stated in the sources used here. The centre already existed in August 2006, according to the 2008 court judgment described under Background.
Position on the map: Derived by us from the published address, not a point published by SUZ.The pin marks the published address, in the airport area. The centre lies inside the transit zone and its exact position is not published.

Background

AIDA's 2025 update lists it as the airport reception centre of the detention type and calls it a de facto detention centre with no access to outside facilities. AIDA writes that closed centres, meaning the airport reception centre and the detention facilities, cannot be left by applicants, and that limiting an applicant's stay to the closed airport centre happens in practice only during the border procedure.

Official finding: in a judgment of 27 November 2008 (application no. 298/07), the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Czechia over the detention of an asylum applicant who had been held from August 2006 in the reception centre in the airport transit area, and then at Velké Přílepy until April 2007. Česká televize (ČT24) reported on 2 December 2008 that the Court found he had no remedy through which a court could speedily decide on the lawfulness of his detention, and awarded EUR 2,000. This was a ruling against the state, not an incident at the centre.

Reported incidents

The sources used for this page do not report an incident at this site.

Sources

official source

The Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ) runs the state asylum facilities and also detention. Capacity and occupancy come from the AIDA Czech Republic 2025 update (June 2026), which received them from SUZ: capacity is for 2025, and occupancy by centre is for the end of 2024 because figures for 2025 were not available. Each is dated on this page. Capacity is a number of places and not a headcount, and the occupancy figures are not current. Addresses are from SUZ's page for each facility, and positions are derived from those addresses. The cost published is for the whole agency, CZK 939.8m in 2025, detention and other services included, so no site shows a cost. Incidents come from news outlets, the police or official reports, each named and dated, with the stage that was reported. A facility that works like detention is labelled so.

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