MINISTRY OF CITIZEN PROTECTION Hellenic Police Headquarters – Aliens & Border Protection Branch – Migration Management Directorate Findings during the visit and proposed action: 1. Ill-treatment. Requests for information/investigation into reprehensible conduct – actions by police against illegal immigrants, detainees and suspects of criminal offences. Paragraph 20 on complaints received by the Committee concerning ill-treatment of detainees – Request for information: For the incidents described in the Committee Report on physical abuse – ill-treatment of aliens by police officers in the Evros and Samos areas, no information has been provided on alleged perpetrators – police officers, witnesses, victims – aliens, the exact location and timing of the incidents, and the facts which took place or any other evidence, capable of matching with them, without any room to question. The Police Personnel Directorate/HPH, as the relevant competent authority, to date has not been aware of any complaint, submitted to any Authority, or to a subordinate police agency by the alleged victims or third persons. In the police departments of the Evros and Samos areas, a large number of aliens of various nationalities were detained, which makes it difficult to identify the alleged victims and corroborate the said complaints. If the Committee makes more information available relating to the reported cases and sends it promptly to the Hellenic Police Headquarters, it will be possible to apportion the blame, as appropriate, to any police officer involved in any way in the incidents in question. 2. Answer to direct observations – recommendations/requests for information from the Committee: Paragraph 19: Recommendation – The CPT Committee recommends that the Greek authorities ensure that all prosecutors and criminal courts are fully aware of Greece’s international legal obligations. In addition, the CPT Committee wishes to be informed whether those persons who received a suspended prison sentence can apply for asylum after 31 March 2020. CPT would also like to know whether these criminal cases filed by prosecutors in the Region of Alexandroupolis and on the island of Lesvos have been tried. In addition, it wishes to receive details of the charges filed against minors from Afghanistan and to be informed of any future procedures affecting them. 4