GREECE IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ROUTINELY DETAINED IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS 41 At 6pm, before dinner was served [at the immigration detention centre], they took us to be transferred. The police put us in a cell together with 10 Afghan unaccompanied children. Then they put all 16 persons on a boat to Athens. They didn’t return our personal belongings (when they arrested us they took our money and our expensive mobile phones). During the journey the police officers in charge did not give us anything to eat or even to drink. When we asked them to give us some water and food, they replied that no one gave them money to buy water and food for us; they told us: “If you have money we will buy food for you”. So, we ate nothing during the journey and we were forced to drink water from the toilet of the ship, which is not drinkable. We only ate again the following day at 10pm in Athens. In addition, during the whole journey we were handcuffed in pairs even when going to the toilet. They didn’t allow us to smoke, but they were smoking in front of us, and when one of us asked to smoke too, they beat him.149 Asylum-seeker transferred from Samos to Athens on 14 January 2010 Index: EUR 25/002/2010 Amnesty International July 2010