Page 4 of 46 than €2 million ($2.16 million), cell phones, and other valuables. The article also said 92 percent of individuals pushed back in 2022 reported having been victims of theft. In February the Border Violence Monitoring Network, a consortium of 12 NGOs across Europe, reported findings based on interviews of 50 detainees in Greek preremoval centers. Of those interviewed, 65 percent alleged they experienced or witnessed violence by authorities. About 25 percent claimed authorities used physical violence, including use of tasers, as a form of coercion or punishment. On May 19, the New York Times published an April 11 video allegedly showing the Hellenic Coast Guard moving 12 migrants and asylum seekers including small children from a van into a raft, taking them out to sea, and abandoning them. On May 22, Prime Minister Mitsotakis said authorities opened an investigation. Prison and Detention Center Conditions Prison and detention centers remained overcrowded, often with inadequate sanitation or health care. In January main opposition member of parliament and shadow Migration Minister Giorgos Psychogios denounced “deteriorating conditions” in preremoval centers that he attributed to a lack of crucial health and social services. In August the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

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