The length of stay varied, I Have Rights’s beneficiary data reveals that asylum seekers were detained in the quarantine zones for an average of 12 days, and some up to three weeks. This is confirmed by media reports, for example an individual who arrived on 27 July 2022 reported that they were held in quarantine for 20 days.[122] During this time I Have Rights would often receive messages from those in quarantine asking for clothing, with people reporting that they were required to remain in the same clothes they had arrived in or had only been given one additional set of clothes, raising concerns about the undignified conditions people were detained in. The supposed concerns for the health of those held in quarantine are immediately contradicted by these standards, but also the immediately decreased concerns for the spread of disease in the overcrowded accommodation in the CCAC after quarantine.[123] Crucially, and as already highlighted in the previous section, while in the main section of the CCAC, unaccompanied children are separated from the general population, this was not the case in the quarantine zones. UACs were not identified prior to quarantine, which resulted in them being placed in shared dormitories with adults, in breach of multiple safeguards enshrined in European and Greek law.[124] The factual circumstances of the quarantine amounted to de facto detention. Yet, the decision to hold people in quarantine was not made according to an individual assessment, neither during initial arrival nor after the minimum days. In contravention of Article 8(2) of the RCD, all new arrivals were subjected to quarantine detention as a group and their quarantine was extended as a group. During quarantine, people were confined to containers with other ‘new arrivals’. Those in mandatory quarantine were under constant observation by police who worked in shifts throughout the day and night. Despite their enclosure within the heavily securitised quarantine section, those in quarantine were subject to repeated checks throughout the day outside their containers.[125] Additionally, police entered the containers during the night, and reports suggest that people would be woken up in the night by the police who would order them to quickly exit their container to be counted. [122] Nektaria Psarakis. 2023. Άγρια κακοποίηση προσφύγων στο ΚΕΔ Σάμου από αστυνομικούς – «Ξεκινάμε άμεσα ΕΔΕ», η απάντηση της ΕΛ.ΑΣ στο TPP. Available here. [123] CCAC resident. 2022. AYS Special from Greece: The Eye —An asylum-seeker’s account on pushbacks and life in Samos Refugee Camp. Available here. [124] Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast). Articles 11,21, 22 and 23. [125] Nektaria Psarakis. 2023. Άγρια κακοποίηση προσφύγων στο ΚΕΔ Σάμου από αστυνομικούς – «Ξεκινάμε άμεσα ΕΔΕ», η απάντηση της ΕΛ.ΑΣ στο TPP. Available here. Page 34