20 FRONTIER EUROPE Human rights abuses on Greece’s border with Turkey the larger immigration detention centres. 54 In other facilities with outside yards,55 detainees claimed that they were not regularly taken outside except at the Fylakio Initial Reception Centre where detainees were free to use the yard. Communication with the outside world is severely restricted. Mobile phones are banned at almost all facilities and pay phones available charge high rates for international calls. Detainees spoken to reported that phone cards costing €4 each lasted only a few minutes when making international calls. Many detainees told Amnesty International that they had not been able to speak to their families for months once their money had ran out. Many Somalis and Afghans felt deep distress at not knowing if the families they had left behind were still alive. “We cannot speak to anyone. We don’t know what happens in the world outside. There is no TV, no radio. All we can do is think. We think too much. Two Afghans attempted suicide by hanging themselves. It is too difficult here. Our blankets haven’t been washed for nine months.” A Rwandan man detained in Komotini Immigration Detention Centre since August 2012. In the Tychero Border Guard Station – a converted warehouse – there was mould on the walls the floors were dirty, and some cells were damp despite renovations. In Feres and Metaxades detainees complained that they had to call the police whenever they needed to use the toilet, as there were no toilets in their cells. They claimed that their calls sometimes went unanswered for hours so they had to urinate in bottles. Detainees also complained that they lacked access to proper medical care.56 As a member of a minority clan, P. said she had to flee Mogadishu, Somalia. She told Amnesty International that she left behind her three children in the hope that they would join her once she was settled somewhere safe. She said that she first tried to reach Europe in November 2012. She crossed the River Evros along with other refugees and migrants, all men unknown to her. Shortly after arriving in Greece, they were reportedly caught by the Greek police and returned to Turkey: “It was night, so we couldn’t walk and spent the night next to the river. That night, two men travelling with us attacked me. They raped me.” Despite the risks, she gathered her strength and crossed the border again to Greece in early March. However, while she was trying to continue into Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, the Greek police caught her once again. P. said that she was initially detained for two weeks near the Macedonian border, and then transferred to the Fylakio Immigration Detention Facility. When Amnesty researchers met her there on 14 April 2013, she had been in Fylakio for more than three weeks. P. said that she had heavy vaginal bleeding which she believed was due to being raped. Although the director of the centre told Amnesty International that the doctors at the facility would have been aware of her situation and her need for care, P. and other women detained with her claimed that she has not been given medical assistance. Amnesty International was not given access to the detention area in the Komotini Immigration Detention Centre and inside the cells of most of the other facilities so it was not possible to make a detailed assessment of hygiene and accommodation conditions. Detainees themselves reported sewage leaks at the Komotini Immigration Detention Centre. In Amnesty International July 2013 Index: 25/008/2013