Page 6 of 46 and controlled-access facilities, reception and identification facilities, and official migrant and asylum-seeker camps. Improvements: In accordance with a 2022 law, the government established a legal remedy for complaints about detention conditions. d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention The constitution and laws prohibited arbitrary arrest and provided for the right of any person to challenge the lawfulness of their arrest or detention in court. The government generally observed these requirements. On January 25, opposition member of parliament Psychogios said the number of administrative detainees in the preremoval detention in his district increased 500 percent since 2019. He said authorities detained survivors of an October 2022 shipwreck in Kythera for more than three months. In September media announced an Afghan national convicted and imprisoned for three years on allegations of human smuggling would receive €16,000 ($17,280) as compensation for wrongful detention. The ombudsperson, through the National Preventive Mechanism for the Investigation of Arbitrary Incidents, received 210 complaints in 2022, most about police insults to human integrity, health, or freedom. The ombudsperson’s July report noted that despite fewer forced returns of foreign nationals, the number of administrative detainees in preremoval detention centers and police stations remained high. The ombudsperson Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

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