Family Separation In the detention centers where MSF worked, families were separated. In Pagani and Filakio male and female family members were detained in separate cells, with very limited possibility of communication, as usually men and women were not allowed to be in the yard together. Young children stayed with their mother or the parent they were traveling with in the women’s or men’s cell. In Pagani detention center adolescents who were travelling with their families were usually separated from their parents and put in a separate room with unaccompanied minors. Women and minors, whose husbands or fathers were detained in Venna detention center, were detained at a different facility, Iasmos police station, about an hour away from Venna. MSF teams tried to facilitate family contacts in Pagani detention center, as fathers asked MSF staff to help them get access to their children. After obtaining permission from the police, our team accompanied the children to the lower level of the building to see their fathers. Fathers would often ask our help to get the small children, who fitted through the iron bars, inside the cell so that they would be able to embrace them. In Filakio detention center, police would at times allow members of a family some time together, usually upon MSF request. © MSF Family members felt very anxious for not being able to stay together and having very restricted, if any, opportunity for communication. Next month I will have been married for 3 years with my wife. This is the first time we are separated. It is very difficult for me. When they arrested us I did not want to let her go, but the policemen pushed us apart. She is now in another detention center and I cannot see her. I do not know when we will be released. I hope we are released together. I have only talked to her a couple of times on the phone. She suffers from a heart condition and I am very worried about her. Iranian man, in his late twenties I am very worried that my child will be born and his father will not be there. I cannot be in here on my own. I want to be with my husband. Palestinian woman in her early twenties, in her 9th month of pregnancy 12