Johansson’s promise that CCACs "will not be closed, they will be humane".[9]
The report presents a typology of restriction and deprivation of liberty that
those accommodated in the centre are subjected to. After highlighting
European and national legal definitions and standards for detention (Section 1),
this report details the security apparatus, restrictions of freedom of movement
and liberty and control that are in place in the CCAC which create its "prisonlike" infrastructure (Section 2). The report then details the various forms of
deprivation of liberty, which includes de facto detention, that people are
subjected to in the CCAC (Section 3), including the mandatory detention of
unaccompanied children (Section 3.1), the mandatory quarantine for all new
arrivals that was in place until November 2022 (Section 3.2), and the systematic
detention of every newly arrived asylum seeker (Section 3.3). The final section of
this report foreshadows the opening of the PRDC on Samos(Section 3.4).
[9] Ylva Johansson. 2023. Spring is the best time to prepare for Winter – why I am visiting Lesvos
now. Available here.
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