66 10. Minors ■ Since 2010 most unaccompanied minors arrive through the border in Evros to Greece. The vast majority of registered unaccompanied minors upon arrest is detained in Fylakio detention centre. A smaller number is also detained in the border guard stations of Feres, Tychero and Soufli. According to statistics by the Greek police there have been 392 unaccompanied minors arrested in the area of Orestiada in 2010 (one of them was younger than 7, 75 were between 7 and 13 years old and the rest up to 17). From the beginning of 2011 until the end of September another 472 unaccompanied minors crossed the land-border in Evros (two of them were bellow 7, 64 were among 7 and 13 years old and the rest was up to 17). In the area of Alexandroupolis from the beginning of 2010 until the end of August 68 unaccompanied minors were counted.199 This makes a total of 932 unaccompanied minors being arrested in Evros from the beginning of 2010 until the summer 2011. Anyway, there is a great number of unaccompanied minors who have been registered wrongly as adults or as accompanied and there are some who are never arrested upon crossing the border. Unfortunately there are no other numbers available. We should state anyway, that, according to MSF, the estimated number of unaccompanied minors that passed through Evros in 2010 was 4.460 (MSF report 2011). In 2011 GCRlawyers estimated that in the summer months there were five unaccompanied minors arriving per day in the detention centre of Fylakio. In both cases the estimations are located higher than the official numbers. There is no functioning protection system for unaccompanied minors in Greece. Unaccompanied minors in Evros are not protected properly at any stage of their stay. In Evros they are systematically held in detention. The basic problems concerning unaccompanied minors in detention are: 1. The detention conditions (mixed detention, the lack of adequate information about their rights and the asylum 199 http://www.e-evros.gr/index.php? sec=85&cid=11653 200 Article 13, par 6b PD 114/2010. They shall avoid detaining minors. Children separated from their families and unaccompanied minors shall be detained for only the necessary time till their safe referral to adequate centres for accommodation procedure, the issuing of administrative deportation orders); 2. The detention length (the dysfunction of the legal guardianship system and the over crowdedness and small number of special reception centres for unaccompanied minors); and 3. The dysfunctional identification of vulnerable groups and other mistakes during screening and registration procedures where minors repeatedly are registered wrongly as adults and / or with wrong nationalities. In both cases minors are exposed to the danger or illegal readmissions or deportations. Due to all the abovementioned problems both unaccompanied minors registered as such and the ones registered falsely as adults face severe problems and a lack of protection also after release. From the moment an unaccompanied minor is arrested the authorities issue a deportation order and they inform the public prosecutor who acts as a temporary guardian for the minors. The minors stay in detention until their referral to a reception centre. Until today there is no special social service for unaccompanied minors detained in Evros apart from ARSIS, which is implementing temporarily a program providing social assistance to unaccompanied minors detained in Evros (since July 2011). There is no special healthcare for unaccompanied minors except from typical blood examinations and a Mantoux test (or tuberculin sensitivity test), which are the precondition for being referred to a reception centre. 10.1. Detention conditions Greek law requires the separation of adults from children in detention.200 Despite this fact, in Evros prefecture children are not detained in special places suitable for them and often end up in mixed detention. In Fylakio detention centre unaccompanied minors are detained in cell two, but due to overcrowding or wrong registration also happens to share cell with adults. of minors.; Presidential Decree 141/1991, »Competencies and internal regulations of the personnel of the Ministry of Public Order,« art. 67, para. 3: »Military personnel, police officers, women and minors shall be detained in special detention places.« (unofficial translation)