A large number of people reported fundamental lack of access to healthcare, including 67% of interviewed people being detained in Amygdaleza or Corinth PRDC, the two largest detention facilities that accommodate the most detained persons in Greece (950 and 655 detained persons 179 respectively at the end of April 2023). At the end of April 2023, neither Amygdaleza, Corinth nor Xanthi had a single doctor present in the centres. 180 Individuals reported the worsening of symptoms for people with long term conditions, including cases with kidney and heart conditions, and the denial of medical care following incidents of abuse by the authorities.181 The widespread restriction of access to healthcare has also been raised by civil society,182 the Greek Ombudsman183 and the CPT. 184 Likewise, access to psychosocial support is extremely limited in mainland PRDCs despite frequent reports of people in severe psychological distress, incidents of self-harm and suicide attempts. 185 In March 2024, MIT published a statement following messages from dozens of people detained at the Corinth PRDC who reported on their severely deteriorating mental health and suicidal thoughts, resulting from facing continuous incarceration over several months and the lack of information on the duration of their detention. 186 MIT’s research found that individuals in Corinth experienced the longest periods of time in detention, with an average of seven months 187 and with reports of people held for beyond 18 months. 188 As well as incidents of deaths and suicides reported in the Corinth PRDC, protests have been reported, including hunger strikes, often repressed with the use of force from law enforcement officers.189 ________________________________ 179. Refugee Support Aegean and PRO-ASYL. 2023. ‘The state of the Greek asylum system, twelve years since M.S.S.’ RSA & Stiftung PRO ASYL Submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in the cases of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece & Rahimi v. Greece. Available at: https://rsaegean.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RSA_PRO-ASYL_MSS_2023_Submission.pdf. 180. Border Violence Monitoring Network. 2024. Violence Within State Borders: Greece. Available at: https://borderviolence.eu/app/uploads/Violence-Within-State-Borders-Greece-1.pdf. 181. Also reported in 2020; See Border Violence Monitoring Network. 2023. Dark Rooms, Degrading Treatment and Denial: The Use of Violence in Greece’s Pre-Removal Detention Centres. Available at: http://www.borderviolence.eu/detention-violence-greece. 182. Mobile Info Team. 2023. “Prison for papers” Last Resort Measures as Standard Procedure, Researching Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece. Available at: http://www.mobileinfoteam.org/detention. See also I Have Rights. 2023. The EU-Funded Closed Controlled Access Centre - The De Facto Detention of Asylum Seekers on Samos. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/de_facto_detention_in_the_ccac/. 183. The Greek Ombudsman. 2021. ‘Return of Third Country Nationals’ Special Report 2021. Available at: https://www.theioi.org/ioinews/current-news/greek-ombudsman-publishes-special-report-on-returns-of-third-country-nationals. 184. CPT. 2024. Report to the Greek Government on the visit to Greece carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 20 November to 1 December 2023’. Available at: https://rm.coe.int/1680b0e4e1. 185. Border Violence Monitoring Network. 2024. Violence Within State Borders: Greece. Available at: https://borderviolence.eu/app/uploads/Violence-Within-State-Borders-Greece-1.pdf. 186. Mobile Info Team. 2024. Statement: “When and how will I get out of here?” Deteriorating mental health of detainees at Corinth detention centre. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/corinth-mental-health?rq=corinth. 187. Mobile Info Team. 2023. “Prison for Papers” Last Resort Measures Used as Standard Procedure. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/detention. 188. Already in 2013 one year after the opening of the facility three detainee deaths as a result of medical neglect were documented, including an Afghan man with cancer who was detained at Corinth for four months without treatment for his condition; See Infomobile. 2013. ‘Second Afghan refugee dies in Corinth detention centre’. Available at: http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2013/11/10/second-afghanrefugee-dies-in-corinth-detention-centre/. In 2013, a person detained at Corinth committed suicide by jumping from the roof of a building in the facility; See FIDH, Migreurop and EMHRN. 2014. ‘FRONTEX’ Between Greece and Turkey: At the border of Denial. Available at: http://migreurop.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_en_web-2.pdf. In 2021, a Kurdish asylum seeker committed suicide having been detained at Corinth for 16 months; See Marion MacGregor. 2021. ‘Protests over Kurdish migrant's death in Greek detention camp’. Available at: https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/31169/protests-over-kurdish-migrants-death-in-greek-detention-camp. 189. Infomobile. 2012. ‘Hunger Strike in Corinth Detention Centre - Riot Police and tear gas…’. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20220120064138/http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2012/11/18/hunger-strike-in-corinth-detention-centre-riotpolice-and-tear-gas/. The latest, reported in March 2024 by Efsyn and Solidarity with Migrants, highlighted the ongoing poor living conditions and reports of abusive treatment by detention staff; See Efsyn.gr. 2024. ‘Κραυγή αγωνίας από τους Αιγύπτιους ναυαγούς κρατούμενους της Κορίνθου’. Available at: https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikaiomata/423914_kraygi-agonias-apo-toysaigyptioys-nayagoys-kratoymenoys-tis-korinthoy and Facebook. Solidarity with Migrants social media post. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/solidaritymigrants/posts/pfbid02Dq2r3hAuu4M78h4VrZdEJFFcuDEk37nmJ9C7J3R4YuWMpeicykHHU32F ybcK7p6fl. 20