Greece has been also convicted several times for the inhuman and humiliating conditions on
the detention centers. In Zontul v. Greece40, a Turkish immigrant was tortured and raped by
officers of the Greek coast guard, in A.A. v. Greece41, M.S.S v Greece and Belgium, Tabesh
v Greece, Ahmade v Greece42, Rahimi v Greece43 where among others the Court stated that
the conditions in different detention centers in Greek territory are far below the expected
ones. On Rahimi a minor was found to be detained without any special treatment and in very
bad conditions, while in Mahmundi v. Greece44, Greece was convicted because an afghan
family including the minors and a pregnant woman was detained under inhuman and
degrading conditions and without any effective judicial review.
In the same issue, the Criminal Court of first instance of Igoumenitsa decided that the
escape for the escape of 17 immigrants, who were detained in a detention centre in
Igoumenitsa, was justified by the filthy conditions on the detention centre and so they were
acquitted.45
There are also decisions that convict Greece for the non existence of adequate legal
remedies against the decision of detention. In R.U v Greece46 the ECtHR stated that R.U a
Kurdish immigrant who has applied for asylum and kept in detention did not have adequate
access to any legal remedies to complain about the conditions of his detention except for
raising objection to the head of the police. With the same decision Greece was also
convicted for deficiencies in the asylum procedure and the risk of R.U being deported to a
dangerous place for him without any judicial remedies offered to him and also for the fact
that an asylum applicant was detained.
In A.A. and Ahmade decision, the ECHR in addition of finding the conditions of detention
below the lawful ones, it also convicted Greece for non existence of judicial review against the
decision of detention. In A.A. it stated that A.A. was illegally detained on very bad conditions
without having any access to judicial remedies to complain, without any access to legal
assistance and without adequate information and in Ahmade it was ruled that Ahmade an
asylum seeker was illegally detained without having any access to judicial remedies against this
decision.
40
Zontul v Greece, Application No. 12294/07, 17 January 2012
A.A v. Greece, Application No. 12186/08, 22 October 2010
42
Ahmade v Greece, Application No. 50520/09, 25 September 2012
43
Rahimi v Greece, Application No. 8687/08, 05 April 2004
44
Mahmundi v Greece, Application no. 14902/10, 31 July 2012
45
Μονομελές Πλημμελειοδικείο Ηγουμενίτσας, Αποφαση 682/2010,
46
R.U v Greece, Application No. 2237/08, 07 June 2011
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