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Administratively detained irregular migrants and asylum seekers
ii. Findings
In regard to the registered minors, the police authorities impose
the measure of detention until their transfer to Accommodation
Centers for minors. During our visits, we established that the minors
that we talked to, were detained for approximately 1,5-2 months until
they were transferred to an accommodation facility.
• Some minors had been detained to Police Stations and PreRemoval Detention Centers until their transfer to the Special
Detention Facility for unaccompanied minors at Amygdaleza
• During their admission to the Special Detention Facility,
no individual evaluation and vulnerability assessment were
carried out. During our visits, we found particularly vulnerable
children, who were victims of abuse in their countries of origin
and were in need of special care
• Some minors told us that members of their families were
residing legally in Greece
• The minors had not been informed about their legal status,
their right to legal representation and the duties of the
Juveniles Prosecutor as their provisional guard
Furthermore, during our visits to the Pre-Removal Detention Centers
and the Police Stations, we found people who claimed to be minors
but had been registered as adults. In these cases, the police authorities
had not taken measures for their separation from the other detainees
until the completion of the age determination procedure. Some of
them told us that they had been harassed by adult detainees, as they
were all detained in the same cell. Moreover, in most cases, despite
the fact that it was obvious that they were minors or they stated to
the detention authorities that they were minors, no provision was
made for their referral to age determination procedures and their
segregation from adult detainees.
Τhe exemplary case of a minor detainee
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The national of Afghanistan, R.F., despite the fact that,
according to her identity card, she was born in 2002, during
her entry in Greece she has been registered as born in 1999
and as the accompanied daughter of a woman, who was not
her mother. After that, when her real family came to Greece,
she stayed with them at the open center for refugees on the
site of the Greek capital’s old international airport at Helliniko.
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