GREECE IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ROUTINELY DETAINED IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS 33 also told them that he had not been provided with a lawyer during his trial, and was unable to contact his family from prison because he had no money to buy a phonecard. The organization sent a letter to the Attika Aliens’ Police Directorate on 17 December 2009 drawing attention to the apparent mistaken registration of both S.’s age and his country of origin, which was recorded in his file as Iran, rather than Afghanistan. In a reply sent to Amnesty International in January 2010, the authorities said that their practice is to accept the age given by aliens who were arrested with no papers. S. was released at the end of December 2009 and issued with an official notice requesting him to leave the country within 30 days. Amnesty International is also concerned that among the group of 10 irregular migrants transferred from Samos to Athens on 14 January 2010, and subsequently to Venna immigration detention centre in order to be deported, there may have been several unaccompanied minors who were allegedly registered by the authorities as adults (see section 3.1 above). Amnesty International interviewed A., one of the 10 migrants, who told the organization that he was 16 years old. A. was registered as an adult by the authorities, despite his declaration to the contrary (see section 3.1 above). A. also told the organization that among the other nine individuals of his group six more unaccompanied children had been registered by the authorities as adults (as 18 and 19 years old). Two of the six asylum-seekers transferred with the 10 irregular migrants to Athens said that many of the irregular migrants transferred were minors. Index: EUR 25/002/2010 Amnesty International July 2010