with relevant information. In detention facilities, States shall make arrangements to facilitate
access to asylum procedures.74
States shall ensure that legal advisers have access to detention facilities for the purposes
of consulting with an applicant.75 States shall allow personal interviews for legal advises
admitted/permitted under national law. States may stipulate that legal advisers may only
intervene at the end of personal interviews, may provide rules covering presence of legal
advisers, may require presence of applicant at personal interview if he or she is representing
under the terms of national law and may require applicants to respond to questions. Absence of
legal advises shall not prevent the competent authority from conducting a personal interview.76
Finally, States shall not detain an individual on the sole basis that he or she is an
international protection applicant and must be in accordance with the Dublin Regulation. If an
international protection applicant is detained, the individual’s case must be shall have speedy
judicial review of their case. States shall allow the UNHCR and any organization within its
territory working on behalf of the UNHCR, to have access to detained applicants.77
In Greece, According to Migration Policy the number of Asylum Seekers between 2006
and 2010 has seen a slight fluctuation. In 2006 there were 12,270 applications, 19,880 in 2008
and again a decline to 10,270 in 2010. However, these statistics do not take into account the most
recent crisis in Syria.78 Most recently Greek authorities in cooperation with the agreements made
with the European Union, are automatically detaining all asylum seekers and migrant who arrive
on the Greek isles, all in deplorable conditions.
74
Directive 2013/32/EU (Recast), art. 6.
Directive 2013/32/EU (Recast), preamble, para. 23.
76
Directive 2013/32/EU (Recast), art. 14.
77
Directive 2013/32/EU (Recast), art. 12, para. 1(c).
78
Charalambos Kasimis, Greece: Illegal Immigration in the Midst of Crisis, (Mar. 8.2012),
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/greece-illegal-immigration-midst-crisis.
75
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