24 represented a minority of people detained in explained, “There is no private space here...People the Kos PRDC. come use our bathroom in our caravan because D. Overcrowding Although the numbers of individuals detained in the PRDC remained relatively low compared to the first edition of this report,47 participants broadly reported persistent problems with a theirs are broken, so we have around four to six people not living in our caravan who use our bathroom,” while Faris shared that, “There is no privacy [in the bathroom] because it’s very close to the room. When I want to turn on the sink to wash my hands, you can hear the sink in the room next to lack of privacy due to overcrowding in the you.” caravans. This year, participants reported Lana — the only female participant Equal anywhere from two to four people living in one Rights interviewed for this report — shared caravan, with each caravan having two bunk that she felt that she had privacy in her caravan beds, or four beds total. As such, despite the low because no one enters it. However, she also numbers of individuals in the PRDC, eight shared concerns about the fact that the doors participants still reported suffering from a lack did not lock or properly close. She shared, “The of privacy. container has a door, but it opens from the wind, so Idris shared that he suffers from a lack of I have to close it with a rope”. privacy because the entire room “just has space for two bunk beds.” Jamal iterated that the lack of space leads to a lack of privacy. He explained, E. Poor Hygiene Facilities and Sanitation Materials “We have zero privacy, when someone talks to his Consistent family, he talks with the whole caravan.” Ali participants shared that the hygienic facilities included that the lack of privacy impeded his were overall in poor condition and that they ability to study English and sleep. He shared, still lacked access to hygiene products to clean “In my own room, I had three other people that their belongings, despite the fact that they are were always on their phone...They would eat in the responsible for cleaning their own facilities.48 middle of the night, play card games — so there Every participant asked about cleaning wasn’t any sleep or privacy. It was always loud.” materials confirmed that the authorities do not Haytham also explained that the doors to his provide them with any cleaning supplies, caravan do not close, leaving him with limited leaving the caravans and particularly the privacy. Adam further commented on the bathrooms in very dirty conditions. These poor doors, sharing that “Most of [the containers] do conditions not have lock doors...some doors are locked by overcrowding that sometimes occured, as in detainees with improvised tools.” Faris’ case, “We share the bathroom with eight In addition to suffering from a lack of privacy in people because the bathroom is in between two their rooms, three participants reported a lack rooms, and each room has four people”. The lack of of privacy when using the bathroom. Maher access to cleaning supplies, in addition to the 47 48 with were the last two exacerbated Detained and Forgotten, supra note 1, at 34, 50-51. Detained and Forgotten, supra note 1, at 51-53; Still Detained and Forgotten, supra note 2, at 30-32. ‘Still detained and forgotten’ – Update on Detention Policies, Practices, and Conditions on Kos 2023/24 reports, by the