Access Info Europe study, the director of the Aliens Division of the Ministry of Public Order provided a list of nine facilities. Notably absent from the list where the numerous police and border guard facilities that are frequently used for long-term detention purposes, as well as numerous older facilities that remain in use according to observers. According to the information received by the Global Detention Project from a variety of official and nongovernmental sources, the following facilities have been used at some point since 2012: Attica region. There appear to be four facilities in this region: (1) In Amygdaleza, northwest of Athens, a pre-removal detention centre with a capacity of more than 1,600 was opened in April 2012. Its opening spurred protests by local residents (ICJ and ECRE 2013). With an average population of 900 persons, the Amygdaleza centre has been used to confine people apprehended during the Xenios Zeus operation (Pappa 2012). Following its visit in May 2012, UNHCR found the material conditions better than in other migrant detention centres in Greece (UNRIC 2012). On the other hand, a European Parliament delegation visited the centre five months later and found it to be “substandard and the conditions unacceptable for an EU member state” (ICJ and ECRE 2013). (2) Amygdaleza also has a 40-person detention centre for unaccompanied minors. According to Amnesty International, as of August 2012 the centre was holding children in substandard conditions for up to three months (AI 2012). In 2008 the CPT visited the facility and found that it offered largely appropriate conditions. The four large dormitories were equipped with plinths and had sufficient access to both natural and artificial light. However, the dormitories did not have in-cell toilet facilities, thus minors had to resort to plastic bottles at night. The committee commended the facility for having an outside yard and a large activity room equipped with computers and a television set (CPT 2009). On the other hand, during a visit in 2012 the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants described the courtyard as a “small cage” that children rarely used (SRHRM 2013). (3) People caught trying to leave the country with false documents are detained at the police station at the Athens Airport (Pappa 2012; Fili 2013). During its 2010 visit, Amnesty International found appalling conditions at this facility. There was severe overcrowding, in some cases cells with a single bed were holding more than a dozen people. Rarely the police officers unlocked the cells’ doors, forcing the detainees to use plastic bottles to urinate; those in the cells with toilets had to drink water from the toilet (AI 2010). In the M.S.S. case the ECtHR found that even a relatively short period of detention—less than a week—in such conditions amounted to a prohibited treatment under article 3 of the ECHR (ECtHR 2011a). (4) Perhaps the most notorious facility in the region is the Attica Aliens Police Directorate at Petrou Ralli Street in Athens, which can confine 190 men and 150 women. During its 2012 visit, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants found that “families were separated, with women, girls and small boys kept on one floor, and men and teenage boys held separately on another floor. Families were only allowed 13