FORGOTTEN Administratively detained irregular migrants and asylum seekers In the Asylum Service: • Serious delays in registering and processing of prisoners’ asylum claims • Recommendations to the police authorities on the detention of asylum seekers, have a standard and not binding wording, which results in the police authorities continuing to determine exclusively about the detention of the applicants. 4. Unaccompanied minors are still being detained due to lack of open accommodation facilities and due to deficiencies in age definition procedures and in identification of unaccompanied minors. ii. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GREEK AUTHORITIES General Recommendations Full implementation of the prescribed first reception procedures not only at the entry points but also within the mainland. Full compliance with CPT recommendations regarding detention conditions. Full implementation of the legal framework on the procedures of administrative detention and return. Abolition of the administrative detention of unaccompanied minors and seriously ill people. Special Recommendations TO THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR DIVISION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND PROTECTION OF CITIZENS (HELLENIC POLICE) Discontinuation of use of police stations for holding administrative detainees over 48 hours. 7

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