instead opt to examine their claims themselves, as is allowed by the sovereignty clause of the Dublin II regulation. They should choose to resume such transfers only when Greece shows that it has met EU standards for conditions of detention, police conduct, access to asylum and other forms of protection, and the fair exercise of asylum procedures, and when Greece stops its practice of forcibly returning non-nationals who would thereby face persecution, torture, or inhuman and degrading treatment in Turkey or their countries of origin. 7 Human Rights Watch November 2008