Port Authority of Symi
Detention Centre- Summary
The facilities of the Port Authority of Symi are used as a detention site for third country nationals. In one reported incident a group of asylum seekers was held in an openair space behind the Port Authority of Symi for about one week and were deprived of access to their mobile phones and subjected to poor living conditions and inhumane treatment by authorities.
- Country
- Coordinates
Latitude: 36.616762079691505
Longitude: 27.841346977632153
- Coordinates
- address
- Ano Symi, 85600
- Location area
- Urban
- Phone number to contact
- 2246071205
- symi@hcg.gr
- Web site
- https://www.hcg.gr
- Controlled by
- Hellenic Coast Guard
- Founded by
- Hellenic Coast Guard
- Type of Facility
- Other, unofficial
- Gender
- Mixed
- Age
- Mixed
- Number of guards
- No information available
- Population demographics
- TCN
- Analysis on Demographics
The facility has been used to detain unregistered asylum seekers of all genders and of different nationalities.
- Description
Detainees have been held in the yard behind the Office of the Port Authority of Symi which lacks appropriate infrastructure. Detainees are required to sleep on the ground. There is only one extremely unsanitary toilet without functioning flush. No additional sanitation or hygiene facilities are available.
- Type of surveillance
- No information provided
- Allowed entry/exit?
- Not allowed
- Use of biometric data collection
- No
- Facility provision of legal services
- No
- Facility provision of medical assistance
- No
- Facility provision of interpretation
- No
- Facility provision of religion space
- No
- Number of meals provided
- Only if detainee can pay for it
- Use of private security
- Unknown
- Analysis on Services and Rights
In one reported incident a group of unregistered asylum seekers who were detained at the facility was not provided with any sanitary products, adequate food or fresh water. Staff reportedly only brought them dry bread, cheese and some biscuits, which they handed out to the group in daily rations, ignoring the dietary needs of group members with medical conditions. The detainees had to pay for the goods they received. The prices varied every day. They were told to drink from the hose next to the toilet. The water was warm and tasted very bad. By the time their detention came to an end, all the children in the group were ill, suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea.
- Analysis on staff-detainee relationships
In one reported incident the staff behaved very aggressively. They shouted at the group members and beat some of them on several occasions.
- Funding origin
- GR