GREECE IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ROUTINELY DETAINED IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS
47 Ensure that the maximum duration for detention provided in law is reasonable in length. On access to information Ensure prompt and effective access to qualified interpreters in immigration detention centres, border and police stations and at the planned screening centres.
Ensure that up-to-date information leaflets on deportation, detention and asylum determination procedures are available and accessible in various languages to detained asylum-seekers and irregular migrants.
Ensure that irregular migrants and asylum-seekers who are transferred from one centre to another are informed of the purpose of their transfer and their destination in writing and in a language they can understand.
On contact with the outside world
Ensure that, while in detention, asylum-seekers and irregular migrants are able to communicate freely and in full confidentiality with people who visit the places of detention, and have adequate opportunity to communicate with the outside world, subject to reasonable conditions to ensure security and good order. Ensure that detained asylum-seekers and irregular migrants are able to exercise their right to access to legal counsel, interpreters, doctors, refugee and migrant assisting organizations, members of their families, friends, religious and social assistance and the UNHCR, and that this right is not impeded in practice.
On transparency and the prevention of human rights violations Ensure that, in conformity with international standards, an independent monitoring and inspection body carries out regular, unlimited and unannounced visits in every facility where irregular migrants and asylum-seekers are held, and includes specific responsibility of the rights of migrant and asylum seeking children.
Ensure that information relating to detention practices including the detention of asylum-seeking and migrant children is made publicly available through the publication of complete and detailed data concerning:

The admission and presence of accompanied and unaccompanied asylum-seeking and migrant children.
Gender-disaggregated statistics. On the status of immigration detention centres and screening centres Ensure that all immigration detention centres and planned screening centres operate on the basis of a legislative framework and internal regulations that provide adequate safeguards
Index: EUR 25/002/2010 Amnesty International July 2010