restriction” orders. Accordingly, less than one in five Hellenic Police detention orders were challenged in court. Here too, the aforementioned obstacles to the accessibility of the administrative appeal against return and deportation decisions, coupled with the complete absence of free legal assistance, adversely affect the effectiveness of access to the objections remedy. More than half of objections against detention in Greece were lodged before the Administrative Court of Athens (2,192), far ahead of the Administrative Courts of Corinth (540), Piraeus (323) and Thessaloniki (164). The administrative courts granted 43.6% of objections against detention examined on the merits in 2025: Decisions on objections by administrative court: 2025 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 Athens Corinth Piraeus Thessaloniki Kavala Komotini Rhodes Heraklion Corfu Patra Others Granted Rejected Source: Ministry of Justice, Reply to parliamentary question, 2 Mar 2026 Serious disparities still persist between judicial review of detention in objections and ex officio judicial review of extensions of detention orders based on domestic asylum and return legislation, even though they relate to the very same provisions and are conducted by the same courts. Ex officio review of legality of immigration detention: 2025 Asylum (L 4939/2022) Return (L 5226/2025) Quashed percentage Quashed Upheld Quashed Upheld Corinth 2 1,084 0 0 0.2% Kavala 4 564 0 226 0.5% Serres 0 563 0 0 0% Athens 1 347 12 411 1.7% Others 7 470 4 274 1.5% 14 3,028 16 911 0.8% Total Source: Ministry of Justice, Reply to parliamentary question, 2 Mar 2026 RSA POLICY NOTE │ IMMIGRATION DETENTION | MAR 2026 7