EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mobile Info Team is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has been based in northern Greece since 2016, providing information and assistance relating to the asylum procedure. Through our hotline services, our team of caseworkers and lawyers responded to an average of 706 enquiries per month in 2022 from people across Greece. This report focuses on the detention of applicants of international protection and third country nationals subject to return orders who have been detained in one of six Pre-removal Detention Centres (PRDCs) on mainland Greece, as well as other police stations or special holding facilities, since 2020. Mobile Info Team undertook in-depth interviews with respondents from Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Türkiye, between the ages of 16 and 51 years old. Our questions were based on access to asylum, legal counselling, information, translation, hygiene conditions, basic facilities, medical and psychological care, access to education or recreational activities, and the practice of protests. Our research highlights that particularly since the implementation of the International Protection Act in 2020, and the subsequent amendments, the use of detention for people on the move has become systematic and embedded in Greek law. Testimonies indicate the arbitrary use of detention both in terms of the reason and length of time that people are detained. Due to the lack of reasonable prospect of removal in Greece, the deprivation of liberty for many of our respondents is not lawfully justified, breaching fundamental rights of people on the move. Access to legal counselling in PRDCs on mainland Greece is extremely limited. Those who could not afford expensive lawyer fees are left without information or advice, amplified by the critical lack of translators available in detention centres. The carceral environments of PRDCs, coupled with dilapidated structures, dysfunctional facilities, unsanitary conditions and a fundamental lack of access to healthcare has a significant impact on the psychological wellbeing of detainees. Through the analysis of extensive qualitative data, reinforced by visual data and a case register analysis of 151 enquiries related to detention, this report provides evidence that demonstrates that the conditions of detention centres in Greece do not meet international and European standards. Mobile Info Team argues that detention measures and practices in Greece are not effective and do not comply with fundamental rights under international, EU or Greek law. We recommend that Greece acts urgently to respect its international and European commitments by: Recommendations to the Greek state: Ensure that the deprivation of liberty or use of detention for people on the move is only used as a measure of last resort, and in line with international and European human rights standards. 5