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GREECE: TENSIONS AROUND THE DETENTION SYSTEM

22 Sunday Feb 2015

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The death of three exiles in Amygdaleza detention center and in a police station seems to have put the Greek government in motion.

By a press release of 17 February, it announced:

– The immediate abolition of the ministerial decision to extend detention beyond 18 months (ie beyond the limit set by EU legislation);

– The immediate release of vulnerable persons and asylum seekers held in detention centers, and their orientation towards open accommodation facilities;

– The release of those in detention for more than six months, which becomes the maximum duration of detention;

– The review and implementation of alternatives to detention.

At the same time, abuse and the existence of a police group which would have tortured people in detention center of Amygdaleza are exposed by some media in the public arena.

Demonstrations continue for the closure of detention centers, that of Amygdaleza led to clashes with riot police when demonstrators managed to get into the detention center.

Short news (in English) on the website Clandestina:

https://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/shut-down-detention-centers-now/

https://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/classes-with-riot-police-in-amygdaleza/

Article (in French) on the website Okeanews:

http://www.okeanews.fr/20150218-les-conditions-de-detention-deplorables-du-camp-damygdaleza

Automatic translation of the press release of the Greek Ministry of the Interior:

http://www.astynomia.gr/index.php?option=ozo_content&lang=%27..%27&perform=view&id=50720&Itemid=1458&lang

« 02/17/2015: Press release of the Deputy Ministers of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Mr. And Mrs. John Panousi Anastasia Christodoulopoulou on Detention Centers Reduce text Enlarge text Print E-mail

GREEK REPUBLIC
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE RECONSTRUCTION
 

DEPUTY MINISTER Giannis PANOUSIS
DEPUTY MINISTER ANASTASIA CHRISTODOULOPOULOU
 

Athens, February 17, 2015 

PRESS RELEASE 

The recent tragic events (the two deaths of immigrants detained in the detention center Amygdaleza from pathological causes and due to suicide) underline the need for immediate intervention and change in the regime of indiscriminate and months-long detention of migrants and refugees in conditions which constitute inhuman and degrading treatment. 

At this time, hundreds of people detained in appalling conditions in detention centers in the country and many of them, despite the expiry of the ceiling of eighteen months in prison. 

The indefinite detention and deprivation of liberty of thousands of people, including persons in need of international or special protection and care (asylum seekers, families, children, unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, torture victims, patients, elderly), reservation them under these circumstances, for many years problematic functioning asylum system, lack of protection mechanism and first receiving refugees structures border trivialize institutions and denigrate the country internationally and blatantly offend any sense rule of law. 

At this time, it must be immediate action and routing procedures for the immediate lifting of the deprivation of liberty of people and the restoration of legality and for ensuring compliance with the legality onwards and the imposition of administrative detention as an exception and time and under conditions that would not infringe. 

In this context -and with a sense of urgency of the problem initiated procedures to restore the legitimacy and proper application, in principle the existing legal framework, namely the N.3907 / 2011, which regulates the administrative treatment of foreigners subject to return procedures, and legislation for the reception of the requested international protection and ensuring their requests examination procedures (Presidential Decree 220/2007, Presidential Decree 113/2013). 

These processes by decision of the Deputy Ministers of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Mr. John Panousi and Ms. Anastasia Christodoulopoulou include: 

a) the immediate abolition of the ministerial decision which upheld the decision no. 44/2014 Opinion NSK and the immediate release of those detained for any period beyond 18 months. 

b) the immediate dismissal of vulnerable cases (families, children, unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, torture victims, patients, elderly) with the necessary reference in hospitality structures and the immediate dismissal of asylum seekers. 

c) the release of detainees in cases where detention has lasted over 6 months, maximum is set as rule by law-simultaneously with the decision six months deferral of removal under the provisions of n.3907 / 2011. 

d) examination, in each case, the application of alternatives to detention restrictive measures (reporting duties to the police station of the place of residence, declaration of domicile, etc.). The same rules can be applied for those / s occupied now be found in the country without legal documents. 

In any case, according to the provisions of Article of N.3907 / 2011 and the relevant decisions of E.D.D.A., a supplement immediate need radical changes in those detention facilities any retained for a short time and of course the operation of open hospitality structures. In this direction we helper Europe, both at the Council of Europe and European Union in the framework, no, its institutions will claim the division of responsibilities based on the principle of solidarity. 

Finally, the detention center Amygdaleza, by its location and the specificities of (police facilities) can not be converted into an open structure. 

Prepare then, because of the history that accompanies it, emblematic closure structure gradually evacuating the premises. 

Meantime taken all necessary measures (logistics, medicine, clothing, food, etc.) so you do not feel the prisoners, but remain in custody, that the state only words he says. 

We guarantee that the whole process will be completed in the shortest possible time and that due process and security for all will be our primary concern. »

GREECE: NEW SENTENCE UNDER THE ECHR

19 Monday Jan 2015

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Greece was again condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, seized by fourteen exiles who had been locked in Fylakio detention center, near the Turkish border (https://goo.gl/maps/3Uxup). Greece has been convicted of the conditions in the detention center, being held in such conditions is considered as inhuman and degrading treatment, and the lack of serious consideration of the legality of detention by the Greek justice.

Judgment in French, and press release in French and in English under the tab “Related“:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-150297

 

CROATIA: DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE JEZEVO DETENTION CENTER

22 Monday Dec 2014

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November 29, No Border Zagreb organized a demonstration outside the Jezevo detention center, 30 km from Zagreb, the only existing for now in Croatia (but the creation of two “transit centers” is expected soon).

https://goo.gl/maps/aFvGM

Article in English on the blog No Border Serbia:

http://noborderserbia.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/akcija-solidarnosti-jezevo-hr/

and video here:

http://vimeo.com/114446550

 

GREECE: TWO NEW SENTENCES UNDER THE ECHR

21 Sunday Dec 2014

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Made on December 11, two new condemnation of Greece by the European Court of Human Rights, one for the detention conditions at border posts where he was locked and destitute conditions in which it was left as an asylum seeker after his release, the other for the detention conditions in border posts and the fact that he was detained there while he was a minor.

Both judgments in French:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-148626

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-148635

The press release in English that summarizes on pages 3 and 4 both judgments can be downloaded here:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/Pages/search.aspx#{%22itemid%22:[%22003-4953556-6068101%22]}

 

GREECE: CALL FROM FOREIGNERS IN DETENTION TO MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

12 Friday Dec 2014

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The Open Access Campaign publishes the letter of a migrant locked up in Corinth detention center to the members of the European Parliament. The author of this letter has been now released, after doing an asylum application.

http://en.closethecamps.org/open-access-now/

 

« Letter to the Members of Parliament of the European Union

Subject: The unlimited prolongation of administrative detention in Greece beyond the maximum period of 18 months.

As migrants imprisoned in the administrative detention centre of Corinth, a former military base, we herewith inform you of our situation and address you a vital appeal. We need you.

The “Nomiko Symvoulio tou Kratous”, referred to in Greece as the State Legal Council, which functions as a legal consultation service and jurisdictional representation of the Greek state, published its opinion 44/2014 on March 20, 2014 in response to a request submitted by the police dependent on the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection. The opinion is in favour of an unlimited extension of detention for undocumented migrants. We migrants locked up in Corinth camp reacted to this decision of the Greek authorities with a hunger strike in June, 2014, however to no avail.

This prolongation of administrative detention is of conflicting opinions with the spirit and letter of the directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common concerning the standards and procedures of Member States for the return of illegal nationals from third countries. The directive, which states that the detention period must be as short as possible, sets the maximum limit to eighteen months.

The conditions under which we were arrested and have been detained is in complete noncompliance with the European Union law: having been detained for eighteen months or more, we never saw a judge. We have no possible appeal to a judicial authority (article 15). Inside the centre we have no distractions, cannot wash ourselves, and eat insufficient food despite the European funds meant to feed us. We no longer benefit from the services of Médecins du Monde, whose specialists (in dentistry, dermatology and psychiatry) used to intervene very regularly. Suicide attempts are frequent.

Our despair is immense.

We request that you ensure that Greece comply with European standards in immigration and request your immediate rethinking of this terrible detention of a large part, moreover the poorest part, of the world population. The portentous historical consequences of these detention centers are imponderable.

On August 15, 2014, we migrants imprisoned in the camp in Corinth thank you for acting on our behalf.

Mr X, for the detainees at the detention camp in Corinth »

 

GREECE: HUNGER STRIKE IN DETENTION CENTERS

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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Detention conditions unworthy confinement, continued detention beyond the limit of eighteen months, and with no time limit, the recent death of two inmates by carelessness: the inmates of Amygdaleza detention center, near Athens made a hunger strike from 17 to 22 November. They suspended after the first concessions from the authorities: improved living conditions in the center, the release of thirty people locked up for more than two years, the promise of the situation of one hundred and fifty others who are in the same case to be reconsidered. They said they would resume their hunger strike if the authorities do not keep their commitments.

In French on Le Courrier des Balkans website :

http://balkans.courriers.info/article26072.html

In English on Clandestina website :

https://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/hunger-strike-in-amygdaleza-detention-centre/#more-5182

Another hunger strike of persons locked-up for more than eighteen month has started in Paranesti detention center, near Drama, in the north-east of Greece.

In English on Clandestina website :

https://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/hunger-strike-in-paranesti-detention-center/

 

GREECE: NEW SENTENCING UNDER THE ECHR

23 Sunday Nov 2014

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Greece has again been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for detention in inhuman and degrading conditions of a Bangladeshi national (overcrowding, lack of opportunity for exercise, lack of hygiene).

The press release from the ECHR, that you download here :

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx#{%22itemid%22:[%22003-4925063-6028012%22]}

« MD v. Greece (no. 60622/11)
The applicant, Toiabali MD, is a Bangladeshi national who was born in 1978 and lives in Thessaloniki (Greece). The case concerns the conditions and the lawfulness of Mr MD’s detention from 4 January to 15 March 2011 in the aliens’ police department in Thessaloniki, with a view to his deportation.
Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Mr MD complains of his conditions of detention, and in particular of overcrowding, a lack of opportunities for physical exercise and a shortage of food. Under Article 5 § 1 (right to liberty and security), he also alleges that his detention with a view to his deportation was unlawful. Relying on Article 5 § 4 (right to a speedy review of the lawfulness of detention), he alleges that the domestic authorities did not give due consideration to his complaints in that regard. »

You can read the judgment here (in French):

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx#{%22languageisocode%22:[%22FRA%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-147884%22]}

 

GREECE: A COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE REPORT

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published its report following its last visit to Greece. It focuses on police and coast guard stations, detention centers and prisons. It concludes at the persistence of inhumane conditions, abuse and racist behavior by staff.

Presentation in English in the ECRE weekly Bulletin :

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8e3ebd297b1510becc6d6d690&id=a541bf16b9

You can download the CPT report (in English) here.

 

GREECE: TRIAL AGAINST THE REBELS OF AMYGDALEZA DETENTION CENTER

03 Monday Nov 2014

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In August 2013, inmates detention center Amygdaleza revolted against the length and conditions of confinement. Sixty-five of them were prosecuted. The trial of those who have not been expelled or have not escaped starts today November 3rd. A demonstration of support was organized.

In French on Okeanews website :

http://www.okeanews.fr/20141102-solidarite-les-immigres-revolte-du-camp-damygdaleza

 

GREECE: THE DETENTION SYSTEM CHALLENGED AGAIN

16 Thursday Oct 2014

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A report under the MIDAS project advanced illegality and ineffectiveness of detention extended beyond 18 months, while another of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Treatments reveals that these worsen in prisons and detention centers.

On the MIDAS project’s website (in English):

http://www.eliamep.gr/en/category/migration/midas/

On Okeanews website (in French):

http://www.okeanews.fr/20141013-detention-prolongee-dimmigrants-inhumaine-illegale-inefficace

http://www.okeanews.fr/20141015-cas-de-torture-dans-des-centres-de-detention-pour-migrants-en-grece

 

 

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