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Vyšní Lhoty Facility for the Detention of Foreigners

Vyšní Lhoty 234, 739 51 Vyšní Lhoty · Vyšní Lhoty, Moravian-Silesian Region

Immigration detention, not accommodation

This is a place of custody pending removal. It is not accommodation, its places are not counted as accommodation capacity anywhere on this site, and it is shown apart from the reception sites.

In Czechia this facility is run by the same agency as the asylum facilities, SUZ.

Facility for the detention of foreigners at Vyšní Lhoty, in the Moravian-Silesian Region, run by the Czech Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ). It is detention, not accommodation. AIDA says it is exclusively for single men. AIDA lists 450 beds for 2025, the most of the three detention facilities. According to SUZ's annual report, 171 of the 919 foreigners placed in detention in 2025 (18.6%) were primarily placed here.

Key facts

Type: Facility for the detention of foreigners
Operator: Refugee Facilities Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (SUZ)
Address: Vyšní Lhoty 234, 739 51 Vyšní Lhoty, Vyšní Lhoty, Moravian-Silesian Region
Capacity (detention beds): 450 beds (as at 2025)AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): beds in detention facilities, 2025.
People counted there: AIDA gives no count of the people there (occupancy at the end of 2025: not available), and the SUZ annual report gives none.
Placed in 2025: 171 of the 919 foreigners newly placed in detention (18.6%) were primarily placed here (SUZ Annual Report 2025).
Age limit for detention: SUZ's page for this facility says only people over 18 are held there. The SUZ annual report 2025 (p. 8), in its general description of the detention facilities, says only a person above the age of 15 may be detained.
Status: In use (status as at: 4 October 2026)Source: the SUZ page for this facility, accessed on the date shown.
Opening: E15 reported on 5 August 2015 that the site would reopen on 7 August 2015 with 220 places. The same report says it had not been used to house refugees since December 2009.
Position on the map: Derived by us from the published address, not a point published by SUZ.

Background

E15 reported on 5 August 2015 that the site covers 75,000 square metres, had been used as a facility for refugees before, and would start operating again on Friday 7 August 2015 with 220 places. AIDA lists 450 beds for 2025.

Reported incidents

Each entry is attributed to the outlet or body that reported it and states the stage that was reported. Nothing here is our own finding, and no one is named as a suspect.

20 December 2015 · Reported (police statement)
The Police of the Czech Republic said that the escape of three foreigners from the facility on 20 December 2015 was confirmed. They were from Afghanistan, Libya and Algeria and got out after the internal fence between blocks was breached. Police said they posed no security risk and most likely meant to seek protection in another EU state.
Police of the Czech Republic (archive)
16 September 2025 · Reported (citing a police statement)
eurozpravy.cz, citing the Police of the Czech Republic, reported that three detainees left the facility without permission overnight on 15 to 16 September 2025. One was caught immediately and police were looking for the other two.
eurozpravy.cz, citing the Police of the Czech Republic

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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