-2CONTENTS
Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report............................................................................4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................5
I.
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................7
A.
Dates of the visits and composition of the delegations ...........................................................7
B.
Context of the visits...................................................................................................................7
C.
Consultations held by the delegations and cooperation encountered ..................................9
D.
Immediate observations under Article 8, paragraph 5, of the Convention .......................10
II.
FACTS FOUND DURING THE VISITS AND ACTION PROPOSED ............................11
A.
Reception and Identification Centres (so-called “hotspots”) ..............................................11
1.
Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................11
2.
Findings of the April 2016 visit.......................................................................................13
3.
B.
C.
a.
Ill-treatment............................................................................................................13
b.
Conditions of detention ..........................................................................................14
c.
Health-care services ...............................................................................................15
d.
Legal safeguards.....................................................................................................16
Situation at the time of the July 2016 visit ......................................................................18
Foreign national children deprived of their liberty .............................................................20
1.
Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................20
2.
Unaccompanied and separated children held in RICs .....................................................22
3.
Children in immigration detention ..................................................................................26
Adults in immigration detention (other than in RICs) ........................................................29
1.
Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................29
2.
Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................29
3.
Conditions of detention ...................................................................................................30
a.
Police stations.........................................................................................................30
b.
Special holding facilities for irregular migrants.....................................................31