- 28 of the Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica, by crews of the Directorate of Technical Support of the Police Headquarters and by private crews on request and following the approval of the expenditure. As regards the children at the Tavros facilities, during the Committee's visit (at the former women's wing of the 3rd floor), they have been transferred from Eastern Aegean islands in order to be taken to public hospitals and undergo tests (radiological, dermatological, pulmonary) necessary to be taken then to accommodation centres. All minor detainees during the period of their protective custody have two (2) hours of outdoor exercise at a special area while, during their stay the PROKEKA facilities, they were confined in their cells only during the counting hours. In collaboration with the Red Cross, they had been given hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrush, toilet paper, soap, shampoo), clothes (underwear, sheets) and toys (board games, balls). Unaccompanied children-irregular migrants are no longer held at the PROKEKA detention facilities of Tavros (see paragraph 47). Paragraph 59: Request for information: Detention conditions at the Police Directorate at the Athens Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" The holding facilities meet all necessary standards of hygiene and safety. The Police Directorate at the Athens Airport makes all possible efforts to procure the frequent maintenance, disinfection, debugging and rat extermination and the daily cleaning of the holding facilities, so that they always remain functional and clean. Persons arrested for flagrant criminal offences are detained for a short period, no more than three (3) days, during which the criminal procedure is completed as a rule. Then irregular foreigners are referred to the Deportation Department of the Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica, where they belong until the completion of their deportation procedure. In case of congestion of the holding facilities of the Police Directorate at the Athens Airport, the Deportation Department of the Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica is immediately notified in order to redistribute detainees to other holding areas to decongest the holding facilities. Political asylum-seeking foreigners are also held for a short period for "on the spot" requests, no more than twenty eight (28) days from the date of their registration with the Asylum Agency. Outdoor exercise for the detainees is not currently available because of the location of the building, but the Police Directorate at the Athens Airport has taken relevant action. As regards the detention of foreign nationals at the holding rooms of the Airport Terminal of the Athens International Airport, these rooms are for short stays and accommodate foreign nationals characterized as irregular, who are returned to their country of origin on the next available flight, as prescribed by article 5 of Law 4251/14 "Code of Migration and Social Inclusion and other provisions". They are systematically registered in a special book.

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