Greece has been also convicted several times for the inhuman and humiliating conditions on the detention centers. In Zontul v. Greece40, a Turkish immigrant was tortured and raped by officers of the Greek coast guard, in A.A. v. Greece41, M.S.S v Greece and Belgium, Tabesh v Greece, Ahmade v Greece42, Rahimi v Greece43 where among others the Court stated that the conditions in different detention centers in Greek territory are far below the expected ones. On Rahimi a minor was found to be detained without any special treatment and in very bad conditions, while in Mahmundi v. Greece44, Greece was convicted because an afghan family including the minors and a pregnant woman was detained under inhuman and degrading conditions and without any effective judicial review. In the same issue, the Criminal Court of first instance of Igoumenitsa decided that the escape for the escape of 17 immigrants, who were detained in a detention centre in Igoumenitsa, was justified by the filthy conditions on the detention centre and so they were acquitted.45 There are also decisions that convict Greece for the non existence of adequate legal remedies against the decision of detention. In R.U v Greece46 the ECtHR stated that R.U a Kurdish immigrant who has applied for asylum and kept in detention did not have adequate access to any legal remedies to complain about the conditions of his detention except for raising objection to the head of the police. With the same decision Greece was also convicted for deficiencies in the asylum procedure and the risk of R.U being deported to a dangerous place for him without any judicial remedies offered to him and also for the fact that an asylum applicant was detained. In A.A. and Ahmade decision, the ECHR in addition of finding the conditions of detention below the lawful ones, it also convicted Greece for non existence of judicial review against the decision of detention. In A.A. it stated that A.A. was illegally detained on very bad conditions without having any access to judicial remedies to complain, without any access to legal assistance and without adequate information and in Ahmade it was ruled that Ahmade an asylum seeker was illegally detained without having any access to judicial remedies against this decision. 40 Zontul v Greece, Application No. 12294/07, 17 January 2012 A.A v. Greece, Application No. 12186/08, 22 October 2010 42 Ahmade v Greece, Application No. 50520/09, 25 September 2012 43 Rahimi v Greece, Application No. 8687/08, 05 April 2004 44 Mahmundi v Greece, Application no. 14902/10, 31 July 2012 45 Μονομελές Πλημμελειοδικείο Ηγουμενίτσας, Αποφαση 682/2010, 46 R.U v Greece, Application No. 2237/08, 07 June 2011 41

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