GREECE IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ROUTINELY DETAINED IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS 59 Directorate (Petrou Ralli); also Evaluation of the findings of Greek Ombudsman’s on-site investigation in the holding facility of the Attika Aliens’ Directorate, 19 October 2009 at http://www.synigoros.gr/allodapoi. 140 Interview with Efi Teli, lawyer, February 2010. 141 The detention conditions in the Aliens’ Sub-Direction in Thessaloniki, where the applicant, an irregular migrant, was held for a period of three months in 2007 pending his expulsion, were the subject of examination by the ECtHR in the case of Tabesh v. Greece. 142 There are borderguard stations in the prefectures of Evros (such as Ferres, Soufli, Tichero), Rodopi (Iasmos), Kastoria, Xanthi, Thesprotia,and Thessaloniki, among others: http://www.astynomia.gr/index.php?option=ozo_content&perform=view&id=56&Itemid=47&lang=. 143 In October 2009, the Minister of Citizens’ Protection expressed his concern over the detention of aliens pending their deportation in cells of police stations designated to hold people charged with criminal offences. The Minister went on to announce plans to release a large number of them on condition that they had not been charged with a criminal offence. 144 The Dublin II Trap, pp 11-15. 145 CPT/Inf (2009) 20; also Council of Europe European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Report on Greece (fourth monitoring circle), adopted on 2 April 2009, published on 15 September 2009, paras 129 - 135. 146 There was no outside space for exercise at the borderguard stations of Metaxades, Issaki and Neo Heimonio. 147 See also, MSF, “Detention conditions of migrants at the cells of “Eleftherios Venizelos” are exceptionally adverse”, Press release, 11 May 2010, http://www.msf.gr. 148 The Dublin II Trap, p 13. 149 Interview on 23 February 2010 Index: EUR 25/002/2010 Amnesty International July 2010