FRONTIER EUROPE Human rights abuses on Greece’s border with Turkey 35 Once the deportation order is issued, his or her detention can continue until the deportation. This detention period should not exceed 18 months. See also, UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau: Addendum – Greece, 18 April 2013, Paragraph 43, available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/46/Add.4 and Council of Europe, Report by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights following his visit to Greece, from 28 January to 1 February 2013, 16 April 2013, Paragraph 145, available at: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=2053611&Site=COE. 41 42 The Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. 43 Also see AITIMA, Press Release: Detention of Irregular Migrants and Asylum Seekers, 10 April 2013, available at: http://www.aitima.gr/en. 44 While confirming this information in writing on 14 June 2013, the Greek Council for Refugees also informed Amnesty International that thanks to new funding opportunities and the recent call for new allocations from the European Refugee Fund, the Greek Council for Refugees is expecting this suspension to be only temporary. 45 Interview with the representatives of the Aliens’ Division of the Greek Police in Athens on 19 April 2013, interview with the Head of Police in Alexandroupolis city in Evros on 16 April 2013. 46 The Law 3907/2011 on the establishment of an Asylum Service and an Initial Reception Service, transposition into Greek legislation of the provisions of Directive 2008/115/EC, published in the Greek Government Gazette on 26 January 2011. 47 E-mail from the Director of the Asylum Service, Maria Stavropoulou, 10 June 2013. The Asylum Service also informed Amnesty International that they are setting up offices on the islands of Lesvos and Rhodes to be operational by the end of summer 2013. See for example, Amnesty International, Greece: The end of the road for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants (Index: EUR 25/011/2012), 20 December 2012, available at: http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR25/011/2012/en; Pro Asyl, Walls of Shame – Accounts from the Inside: the Detention Centres of Evros, 10 April 2012, available at: http://www.proasyl.de/fileadmin/fm-dam/q_PUBLIKATIONEN/2012/EvrosBericht_12_04_10_BHP.pdf; and Human Rights Watch, EU’s Dirty Hands: Frontex Involvement in Ill-Treatment of Migrant Detainees in Greece, 21 September 2011, available at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/09/21/eu-s-dirty-hands-0. 48 CPT, Report to the Government of Greece on the visit to Greece carried out by the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 19 to 27 January 2011, 10 January 2012, available at: http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/grc/2012-01-inf-eng.htm#_Toc289681112. 49 FRA, Coping with a fundamental rights emergency - The situation of persons crossing the Greek land border in an irregular manner, March 2011, available at: http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2011/coping- fundamental-rights-emergency-situationpersons-crossing-greek-land-border. 50 Index: 25/008/2013 Amnesty International July 2013