48 GREECE IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ROUTINELY DETAINED IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS to detainees including reasonable standards of security and hygiene. On detention conditions
Ensure that detention conditions for migrants and asylum-seekers held in immigration detention are in conformity with international and regional human rights standards such as the UN Body of Principles for the protection of all persons under any form of detention and the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and in particular:
Ensure that irregular migrants and asylum-seekers held for immigration related purposes are detained in purpose built facilities, which are under no circumstances of a punitive nature. Ensure the provision of a proper medical examination as promptly as possible and of medical treatment and care whenever necessary and free of charge.

Ensure that detainees have access to appropriate educational, cultural and informational material.
Ensure access to adequate medical care and psychological assistance for detainees, including psychological counselling where appropriate. Ensure that detained migrants and asylum-seekers have access to interpreters in their contacts with doctors or when requesting medical attention.
Ensure that immigration detainees are separated from criminal detainees and women are separated from men, unless these are close family relatives.
Ensure the detainees’ right to communicate with members of their families, friends, their legal representatives, religious representatives, members of the civil society, consular authorities where requested and the UNHCR.
Ensure that a separate bed with clean bedding and personal hygiene products are provided for each detainee and at least one hour of outdoor exercise daily.
Ensure that transfers to and from places of detention of irregular migrants and asylumseekers are not unnecessary or gratuitous and are carried out in conditions that respect the human rights of those being transferred.
Provide training to immigration enforcement authorities not only on domestic immigration laws and regulations, but also on relevant international standards. Staff of detention centres should be given adequate training on the psychological aspects relating to detention, cultural sensitivity and human rights procedures. All staff dealing with migrants and asylum seekers should be given specific gender training on top of general sensitization for staff dealing with migration issues generally.
Ensure that the training of law enforcement officials addresses racism and discrimination, and includes training on the use of force.
Amnesty International July 2010 Index: EUR 25/002/2010