the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture,[169] suggests
that the conditions in PRDCs across Greece are inhumane and likely in variance
with Article 3 ECHR.[170] I Have Rights is concerned that the PRDC on Samos will
be no different to those across Greece, risking people being unlawfully
detained and at risk of inhuman treatment.
It is therefore likely, in violation of Article 5 and 3 ECHR respectively, that those
detained in Samos PRDC will be subjected to arbitrary detention and inhuman
treatment. It is also possible to assume that having a de jure detention facility
operational within the CCAC will have a negative impact on applicants
residing in the general population of the CCAC, who, already living in a prisonlike structure, and having themselves been subjected to forms of restriction
and/or deprivation of liberty, will be accommodated within the same complex
as a detention centre. It is plausible that applicants will fear that they
themselves will be detained within the PRDC, perhaps themselves having been
released from the PRDC into the general population. As such, its opening will
likely further contribute to the prison-like infrastructure of the CCAC.
[169]Committee for the Prevention of Torture. 2018. Preliminary observations made by the
delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (CPT) which visited Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. Available here.
[170] Human Rights Watch. 2018. Greece: Inhumane Conditions at Land Border. Available here.
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