- 60 comments - law enforcement officials to be reminded once again that the sheet informing detained persons of their rights should be given systematically to all such persons at the very outset of custody (paragraph 46); - provision should be made for assistance by a state-appointed lawyer in cases where an immigration detainee is not in a position to appoint and pay for a lawyer himself (paragraph 49); - in appropriate cases, recourse should be had to the services of an interpreter (including during medical examinations) (paragraph 49); - the CPT trusts that the adoption of a bilateral readmission agreement between Greece and Turkey has brought informal deportations to an end (paragraph 53). requests for information - detailed information on the implementation of the bilateral readmission agreement between Greece and Turkey (paragraph 53). B. Prisons Preliminary remarks recommendations - the Greek authorities to continue to pursue vigorously multi-faceted policies designed to put an end to overcrowding in prisons, having regard inter alia to the principles set out in Recommendation No. R (99) 22 of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers (paragraph 57). requests for information - detailed information on the current programme for the construction of new prisons (and prison service drug treatment centres), including in particular on the timeframe for the implementation of the programme and the entry into service of the establishments involved (paragraph 57); - detailed information on the measures being adopted by the Greek authorities to put an end to overcrowding in prisons (paragraph 57).

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