the general camp population, leaving them without special support. 131 MIT’s 2023 findings show that people with special support needs remain subjected to the same lengthy waiting times for appointments and are not provided with transportation to access the RICs. 132 In one case reported by an NGO social worker, a single father with a child suffering from cancer was unable to travel for registration to a RIC due to the child’s medical condition. 133 In another case, a man from Sudan who is a survivor of torture was apprehended by the Hellenic Police and subsequently detained, after he presented at the Malakasa RIC facility for registration without an appointment receipt. 134 At the time of his arrival in Greece, there was no possibility to request an appointment for registration at a mainland RIC due to the upgrade of the Asylum Service computer. 135 In practice, the lack of effective and timely identification of vulnerable persons, leads to deprivation of suitable accommodation for their special needs. A respondent with a mental health condition reported to MIT/RLS that the authorities placed him in a container at Malakasa RIC with people with whom he could not communicate and consequently felt lonely and isolated, and that they refused to carry out his request to be moved to another container. 136 A vulnerable respondent from Afghanistan reported: The weather was really cold at the beginning, and they told us that we had to stay up to 25 days in Malakasa. [...] It was a very insecure place for me, I never felt safe. If I stayed there without any support or my lawyer, I would have suffered every day. My mental health issues would have worsened, and I would have thought: ‘This is the end of it’. 137 According to research in 2023, all respondents with children who were detained at a RIC for screening and registration reported being held in inadequate facilities for accommodating families, particularly with regard to a lack of safe and age-appropriate spaces for their children to play. 138 In 2023 and 2024, the European Court of Human Rights granted interim measures in two cases represented by ELA, concerning the inhuman and degrading treatment of vulnerable applicants due to the lack of adequate reception conditions in mainland Greece. 139 In the case of A.A.H. and Others v. Greece, the applicants, a family of asylum-seekers, including eight minor children, with multiple vulnerabilities and specific health needs, were left without assistance to meet their basic needs (food and medical care) while facing imminent expulsion from the Controlled Temporary Accommodation Centre of Alexandreia. In the case of S.S. v. Greece, the vulnerable applicant was evicted from the Filippiada Controlled Temporary Accommodation Centre and left destitute and homeless, without access to food and medical care, while suffering from serious health problems with the risk of irreversible and potentially life-threatening consequences for his health. 5. CONDITIONS OF DETENTION According to statistics requested by RSA, at the end of 2023 there were 2,303 people administratively detained in Greece - and a total of 49 staff deployed across six Pre-Removal Detention Centres (PRDCs) throughout the territory, including both administrative staff and ______ ________________________________ 131. Mobile Info Team and Refugee Legal Support. 2024. Voices from the Camps: Living Conditions and Access to Services in Refugee Camps on the Greek Mainland: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/voices-from-the-camps 132. Mobile Info Team. 2023. Protection Unavailable: Dysfunctional Practices and Restrictions on the Right to Asylum. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/ric 133. Ibid. 134. Mobile Info Team. 2023. Protection Unavailable: Dysfunctional Practices and Restrictions on the Right to Asylum. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/ric 135. Ibid. See also above under section “Lack of interpretation services in asylum procedures”. 136. Ibid. 137. Ibid. 138. Ibid. 139. App No. 38776/23 granted 31.10.2023 and App No. 15612/24 granted 20.06.2024. 16