FORGOTTEN Administratively detained irregular migrants and asylum seekers Nevertheless, according to our findings, among the detainees there are persons who face serious physical and mental illnesses (epilepsy, cardiac diseases, diabetes, schizophrenia, etc.), victims of torture and victims of violence. Besides that, even when the competent authorities are informed by doctors –of the pre-removal centers or the public hospitals– or by civil society organizations on the seriousness of the situation of certain detainees, it has been observed that they may not take immediate measures for their release. Finally, when a detainee facing a serious health problem is released, s/he is not being referred to an appropriate facility, where s/he could be provided with the necessary treatment. Specific cases of detainees29 - Pakistani citizen B.A. was detained for 6 months on the grounds of public order (which was related by the Police to a sentence of 5-month imprisonment that he had already served), even though he was suffering from a severe mental disorder. We note that, on 29/05/2015, during his detention at the Pre-Removal Detention Center of Xanthi, he climbed on the roof of the wing B of the Center, from where he finally came down, after the intervention of the psychologist of the psychosocial support team of the Center. After that, during his detention at the Amygdaleza Pre-Removal Detention Center, he was hospitalized from 22/09/2015 until 09/10/2015 at the psychiatric ward of Nikaia General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, due to “a major depressive episode, with psychotic symptoms and suicidal thoughts,” which was “related to his existing psychopathology and the social situation of the detainee (stay at the detention Center),” according to his medical certificate dated 09/10/2015. The doctor of the Amygdaleza Pre-Removal Detention Center had repeatedly informed the authorities on the seriousness of the situation of the above mentioned person, with his extensive reports dated on 12/10/2015, 13/10/2015, 15/10/2015 29 It should be noted that our last update on the cases of the persons that we mention herein that they continue to be held, was in late August. 51

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