Facts
[C.], who claimed to be from Liberia, entered Switzerland on 10 October 1995 and applied for asylum. His asylum application was rejected on 23 November 1995, and he was ordered to leave Switzerland by 7 December 1995. [C.] then disappeared without providing an address. On 13 December 1995, he was apprehended in Zurich with 12 grams of cocaine and taken into investigative detention. After his conviction for violation of the Narcotics Act, he was transferred to the Foreigners' Police of the Canton of Lucerne on 29 March 1996, who placed him in deportation detention. The Administrative Court of the Canton of Lucerne confirmed the detention order until 26 June 1996.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court upheld the deportation detention in accordance with Art. 13b para. 1 lit. c of the Federal Act on Foreign Nationals' Residence and Permanent Settlement (RSFNA). There was a concrete suspicion that [C.] wanted to evade deportation, as he had failed to respond to a summons by the Foreigners' Police, was residing illegally in Switzerland, and actively obstructed the clarification of his identity and the procurement of documents. In particular, he presented a forged refugee certificate and refused to provide written…