This report is written by I Have Rights, a non-profit law clinic that provides assistance to people on the move at all stages of the asylum procedure on Samos. I Have Rights engages in advocacy and strategic litigation focusing on (i) ending the detention of people on the move, (ii) ending the illegal practice of pushbacks and (iii) defending the right of people to seek asylum. I Have Rights seeks to raise awareness of ongoing state practices leading to human rights violations and challenge their impact on the rights of those seeking protection in Europe. The drafting of this report was supported by Ellen Allde, a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar based out of the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. The Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) is a site designated by the Greek State to identify, process and accommodate asylum seekers upon arrival in Greece. The CCAC is a prison-like structure, situated in an isolated area on the hotspot island of Samos, where asylum seekers are subject to constant surveillance and extreme resttions of movement. This report aims to show that the conditions of the Samos CCAC constitutes (i) systemic breaches of the right to liberty and security under Article 5 of the ECHR; and (ii) systemic inhuman and degrading treatment under Article 3 ECHR. The report highlights that the operation of the CCAC by the Greek State as a site of de facto detention, facilitates an evasion of the implementation of safeguards, leaving those in the CCAC both subject to unlawful deprivation of their liberty; and without access to safeguards. Page 2