Copin
ng with a fundam
mental rights emeergency – The situ
uation of people crossing the Greeek border in an iirregular mannerr
Deetention
n conditiions
The most probleematic fundaamental righ
hts concern at the bordeer relates to
o the conditiions of
which person
ns apprehend
ded crossingg the border irregularly arre held
deteention in the facilities in w
for periods
p
rangiing from a feew days to seeveral month
hs. The absen
nce of alternatives to dettention
and the related p
practice to deetain everybody who hass crossed thee border in an
n irregular m
manner,
uding pregnant women and families w
with small children, furtheer exacerbattes the situattion.
inclu
The majority of migrants arre held in fo
our facilities. In Northern
n Evros, irregular migran
nts are
he detention centre for fo
oreigners in Fylakio estab
blished by the Evros Prefeecture.
usuaally held in th
No ssimilar facilityy exists in So
outhern Evros, where irreegular migran
nts are held in police dettention
faciliities in Feres, Tychero and
a Soufli, w
which are cu
urrently inad
dequate to h
host individu
uals for
perio
ods longer tthan a few hours. During the FRA
A visit, irreggular migrants were also
o held
overrnight at a faacility in Porros which was provided by the Arm
my to the police comman
nder in
Ferees. This facilitty as well as other policee stations aree used for iniitial detentio
on and screening of
migrrants.
The vast majoritty of persons held in thee four deten
ntion facilitiees in the Evrros region arre held
d the full six months perrmitted
longer than the tthree day teemporary dettention, but few are held
n. Most are n
not deported
d.
by laaw to effect a deportation
Figu
ure 6: Evros municipa
alities with detention ffacilities fo
or irregular migrants
Sourrce: FRA, 2011
The dire conditio
ons in the d
detention faccilities have been described by mon
nitoring bodies and
Os, including the CPT, thee Council of EEurope Comm
missioner forr Human Rights, the UN SSpecial
NGO
Rapp
porteur on Torture, UN
NHCR, as w
well as by A
Amnesty Intternational and Pro Assyl. As
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